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For four days, the family of Hilereca Dortch prayed for her safe return. Dortch was last seen alive Friday afternoon, leaving her job at Domino's Pizza in Canton.
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Fortrade Review 2020, Is It Good?
If you are interested in trading with ForTradein any capacity please take the time to read and research the whole ForTrade review. This is why we have taken the time to review only the best brokerage firms, their practices, their fee structure and all other important aspects. We want you to evaluate and analyse and trust your hard-earned cash with only the safest and best of brokers.
XM is a popular broker that have license from FCA United Kingdom and ASIC Australia. Are you searching forFortrade reviews in order to find out what is Fortrade, either is Fortrade.com scam or legit? If so, then you are absolutely in the right place because here, within our Fortrade review we are going to provide real truth about Fortrade. CFDs are leveraged products and as such loses may be more than the initial invested capital. Trading in CFDs carry a high level of risk thus may not be appropriate for all investors. Please, try to avoid profanity and foul language in the text of your review, or it will be declined from publishing.
I am from Serbia and all the managers mentioned above are Serbian people without any license. I eventually raised a dispute through Pay Pal, and my money was back in my account in a matter of days.
How Many People Use Fortrade?
TopBrokers.com would like to remind you that the data contained in this website is not necessarily real-time nor accurate. A major clue in this case is that Fortrade’s brokers and account reps are not allowed to advise clients as to what positions they should open or close. If your broker was advising you when to open or close a position, or which asset to invest, then it is EXTREMELY likely that this was not truly one of our brokers. Let other traders know if this service is worth checking or should be avoided. Yes, Fortrade is considered as a good broker, by the top tier financial regulators like the Financial Conduct Authority or FCA. After feeding in the details, not the investors need to upload the scanned documents with a photo like a passport, utility bills, or bank statement. But make sure that the utility bills or the bank statements should be recent and not more than 6 months old.
Fortrade have a selection of useful trading tools including trade calculators, currency convertor and trading central. There are a range of order types available, trading strategy templates, drawing objects and alert notifications. MT4 also supports custom indicators and automated trading strategies commonly known as expert advisors .
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All reviews represent only their author’s opinion, which is not necessarily based on the real facts. In terms of withdrawals, we were quite surprised that it took over two weeks for us to receive our funds, even though we had paid via a credit card. In comparison, when we requested a withdrawal from Pepperstone, the funds were reflecting in our credit card within 48 hours. If you already have an experience of cooperation with Fortrade, please share your impression about services` quality.
That’s 10,000 £/€/$ for each 1 £/€/$ bonus you receive, which is pretty high. This condition pushes people to keep on trading even when they lose their money. Fortrade offers two bonuses, a balance bonus, and a credit bonus. It operates under Fort Securities BLR LLC, which is registered by the Minsk City Executive Committee. So, are you getting involved with a scam if you decide to go with Fortrade? This service is actually quite well known and they are regulated. They have to provide specific levels of transparency and they also are required to provide you with a solid level of privacy and protection for your personal information and banking information.
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Overall, ForTrade is a good choice for all beginners as it can offer very good safety of money, a practice account, and an easy-to-trade platform. They provide direct and low latency trading access via different trading platforms that are equipped with beneficial trading tools. Fisher Sassoon and Marks, reliable UK accounting firm, handles the audit processes of this company. Fortrade features good market-coverage and excellent trading platforms. Its minimum deposit requirement is just USD/EUR/GBP 100, which is indeed very accessible. It is recommended however that you make a more sizable deposit if you’re truly serious about trading. The brokerage features an impressive selection of tradable assets and its trading platforms are nothing to sneeze at either.
Fortrade offer multilingual customer service 24/5 via online chat, telephone and email. There are international telephone numbers and the live chat is very prompt to attempt to answer questions. Support are happy to answer any questions you may have about Fortrade products or services. The trading videos are very professional and detailed, providing a wide range of advanced education on numerous topics ranging from market analysis, trading psychology, technical and fundamental analysis and more. The videos are fun and friendly, suitable for all trader skill levels. Fortrade offer beginner and advanced trading courses covering a wide range of topics including different markets, trading strategies, types of orders, terminology and more.
Fortrade Broker Review
We have checked and ForTrade is regulated and supervised by reputable organisations. You are able to check every ForTrade supervisory and regulatory body given below. Regulation gives you some recourse for those who have issues with ForTrade. Regulatory authorities protect the traders with things like reimbursement schemes that regain the client’s investment in the event the broker becomes insolvent. If ForTrade violate any regulatory rules their regulated status could be stripped.
All the payments funded to the Fortrade forex trading platform are held in a segregated bank account, and for this, Fortrade uses the tier-1 banks to keep their clients’ funds safe and secure. Fortrade is licensed by one of the strictest regulatory bodies, FCA, or the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK that guarantees its legitimacy. Moreover, regulated brokers never manipulate market prices, so that way, Fortrade being a regulated broker is 100% legit. When any withdrawal request is sent to Fortrade, this is honored. It is also a fact that if anytime ForTrade violates any regulatory rules, their regulated status would be stripped without any delay. In the general side of things, Fortrade offers quite the varied ways to learn about trading and the market in general.
Once they have your contact, they will call you several times to get you to invest your money. And according to this review on Trustpilot, Fortrade goes as far as bribing you. The broker works with a variety of markets, such as currencies, precious metals, stocks, energy products, indices, and US treasuries. It provides the MetaTrader4 trading platform, available in both desktop and mobile versions.
Features Fortrade Broker
There are a whole lot of ways and features which make this broker user-friendly for anyone who makes an account on this platform. It has embedded as the best possible choice for traders who are looking for a fully automated trading platform. Also, clients are offered a wide variety of assets, such as stocks, indices, currencies, and commodities that can be traded. Fortrade is a UK-based brokerage company that offers its clients two trading platforms for trading on Contracts for Difference and Forex. Fortrade traders have a choice between the proprietary Fortrader platform and the most commonly used MetaTrader 4 platform. ForTrade is 100% licensed and regulated by the FCA of the United Kingdom. The trading platform/software is available for desktop and mobile devices.
They use the standard SSL encryption which any respectable business uses and complies with all relevant data protection rules. You can fund your CFD trading account or withdraw from your forex trading account via credit card, Skrill, Neteller or even a standard bank transfer. This aspect of Fortrade contains the majority of the features included in the desktop package but with the added convenience of easier access. Fortrade is a safe forex trading platform or CFD trading option as it is completely compliant with the FCA rules; these are recognized as some of the strictest in the world. In addition you will receive a 30% registration bonus; although this is limited to £3,000. There are a wide range of assets which can be used to trade; currently in excess of 300 and the minimum funds you need to get started is just £100. By viewing and browsing through any materials, information, news, reviews, analysis and research provided on this site you agree that this is general market commentary and education materials only.
The fee may be a fixed fee when you deposit a specific fiat currency to your account. For example fees are known to be high when depositing funds from a credit card. This is if your broker accepts funding your account via a credit card.
- It is based out of the United Kingdom, and was developed by currency trading specialists and technical gurus.
- The Fortrader desktop platform allows users to trade 150+ forex currencies and CFDs with the intuitive software, benefitting from the accuracy and functionality of fully-automated trade executions.
- Alternatively, the traders can sign up for a demo account that is virtually funded with $10,000 that the investors can use as a working capital without risking their own real money, however small the amount be.
- One should know that Forex trading or any other kind of trading involves high risks, and is not suitable for everyone.
- All these different versions support all the popular features of MT4.
- The platform that you’re going to be using is the most important aspect of the whole setup.
Established in 2011, Fortrade’s headquarters is situated in the UK, putting it at the epicenter of the world’s largest financial market for FX trading. Fortrade has numerous positive attributes that make it a highly suitable broker for investing in the financial markets. Traders are guarenteed to close your trade at your specified price. Stop Loss orders are guaranteed only during market hours and under normal trading conditions. Trading financial instruments including crpytocurrency and foreign currency markets come with a very high level of risk. In regards to leverage and margin based trading you will be exposed to a high risk of loss. Some financial instruments and derivatives that are off exchange may offer varying leverage and may have limited regulatory protection and high market volatility.
All that the investors need to do is, log in to the respective Fortrade account by feeding in the necessary credentials that he used while filling up the registration form. Sometimes this section needs a little more account information from the trader in order to verify his trading account details with the recorded details. | <urn:uuid:ad29f149-0fbe-438b-85dc-26e64caf6644> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 11,002 |
“Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
The Lord said these words to His unbelieving disciple, who refused to believe in the Lord’s Resurrection when his fellow apostles told him about this resurrection. The apostles joyfully told Thomas that the Lord had arisen, but Thomas replied: “Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hands into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25). The Lord did not tarry in providing His disciple with the confirmation he desired on the eighth day after His Resurrection. We hear a detailed description of this event in the Gospel reading for this week. Thomas wished for confirmation of the resurrection: he received an incomparably higher confirmation, besides which even the resurrection paled. “My Lord and my God!” – Thomas exclaims. Having become convinced of Thy Divinity, I no longer seek to be convinced of the resurrection. For Thee, Omnipotent God, all actions are possible, including those that surpass man’s achievements.
In response to the apostle’s confession, the Lord blessed those who have not seen, yet have believed. He thus remembered us, too, who are separated from that event by time and space. With His words the Lord united the faithful of all times and all places with the apostles. In the prayer which the Lord offered to God the Father before embarking upon His passion, He united the apostles with all true Christians: “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe in Me through their word” (John 17:20).
Yet why do we not have faith?
First of all, because we did not make any effort to become acquainted with Christianity, i.e. we did not listen whenever and wherever we had the opportunity to hear something theoretical about Christianity, in order to afterwards unite this theory with practice and thus acquire an effective knowledge of Christianity.
Christianity can be compared to a large and wonderful harbor, into which ships of all sizes and kinds can easily enter. Christianity embraces people of all ages, all classes and positions, all abilities and degree of education: embraces and saves. Christianity contains both true theology and genuine psychology and meta-physics. Only in Christianity can one acquire a proper understanding of man, of the visible and invisible worlds. The illumination provided by Christianity leads to a formation of the same viewpoint on human learning that is held by God. “For the wisdom of the world is foolishness before God” (1 Cor. 3:4), because this knowledge deals only with what is temporal and worldly, and leads its possessor to vanity, pride, self-deception, forgetfulness of God and eternity. When such a person begins to ponder spiritual subjects, his mind wanders around as in a valley of shadows; being unable to acquire true knowledge, he begins to make up opinions and ideas, dressing them up in artfully complex words, and deceiving both himself and others.
Even a most superficial glance at the establishment and the spread of Christianity leaves us dumbfounded. We can immediately see that Christianity is not a human establishment, but a divine establishment. The Lord became incarnate amid worldly poverty. Despite being of royal ancestry (that of the Holy Virgin Mary), He lived in absolute poverty. Setting out to preach His word, He chose for Himself twelve disciples from the same commonplace environment. The disciples were illiterate or semi-literate people. And such individuals were able to become the founders of Christianity! Of Himself the Lord said that He will die a shameful death. Of His followers He said that they would be killed, persecuted, hated by all. In terms of human reasoning the establishment of Christianity could easily appear to be a matter lacking all sense, a dream issuing from someone’s imagination and love of glory.
However, history has shown us just the opposite. Christianity spread precisely as the Lord foretold. The persecutions to which Christians were subjected in the Roman Empire were unimaginable. The Roman emperors tortured and killed more of their subjects than all of Rome’s wars. Moreover, the Roman emperors killed of their soldiers than all the state’s enemies. In the middle of the first century the population of the Roman Empire was about 100 million people. By the time of Constantine the Great (324 A.D.) it had gone down to 60 million people.
In the establishment of Christianity who cannot but acknowledge God’s will, God’s power, God’s action, surpassing all the reason and power of man? The impossible happened. The inner conviction that comes from a fulfillment of commandments is a conviction that influences the very heart of man. It is more powerful than all outside influences. The Gospel commandments calm the soul, revive and strengthen it.
“Reach hither thy hand, says the Lord to His doubting disciple, and be not faithless, but believing”; begin to act in accordance with My commandments, and you shall see My by means of an invisible spiritual feeling in your soul. Each one who touches Me in such a manner, will become sure of Me and will cry out together with My beloved disciple: My Lord and my God! Amen. | <urn:uuid:770e5abf-ca11-4a84-bae0-abaa6e461f08> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,228 |
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Atlassian is continuing to hire with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. All new and existing Atlassians will continue to work from home until it’s safe to return to our offices. When our offices re-open, every Atlassian will have the choice to work from an office or from home.
Atlassian is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our Cloud FinOps team and build world-class planning models and processes that power business decisions throughout the organisation. Are you a forward-thinking, structured problem solver who is passionate about working with a wide variety of people from all parts of our business? This is an opportunity to enable a world-class cloud centre of excellence and drive how Atlassian's use cloud billing & utilisation data, application service metrics, to develop dashboards & data models to help make service cost management a data driven process.
You will have the opportunity to apply your background in data, analytics, and visualisation to give teams clear mentorship of how their production and spend has performed against their forecasts, identify unexpected anomalies, and help them plan their next steps to reduce waste and optimise spend. By being an ally with other organisations within the Atlassian you will help to evolve practices and supporting models to integrate them into the sources of truth used for Service Governance, Site Reliability, and Technical Education.
You will lead a problem end-to-end, so those skills will come in handy not just to collect, extract, and clean the data, but also to understand the systems that generated it, and automate your analyses and reporting. On an ongoing basis, you'll be responsible for improving the data by adding new sources, coding business rules, and producing new metrics that support the business. The requirements will be vague. Iterations will be rapid. You will need to be nimble and take smart risks.
On your first day, you will to have:
- At least 8 years of professional experience in BI development or in a similar role
- Excellent Expertise in SQL can independently mine data to translate Business data needs into creative visualisations
- Experience in developing, publishing and maintaining sophisticated reporting, analytics and dashboards using Tableau
- A BS in Computer Science or similar
- Enjoy working fast-paced environment redefining vague requirements into proven solutions.
- A willingness to accept failure, learn and try again
- An open mind to try solutions that may seem crazy at first
- Industry experience working with large datasets and reporting platforms and data visualisation.
We would love if you have:
- Experience manipulating data with languages like Python (Pandas, NumPy) and R.
- Experience in AWS Cost Optimisation, GCP or Azure (Usage Analysis, RI planning, Cost modelling, waste identification at Enterprise scale)
- Confidence building data pipelines using Spark and/or Hive
- Experience in implementing data ingestion pipelines using Databricks
More about the team:
- The FinOps team drives Atlassian’s pursuit of a lean cloud cost model through cost awareness and optimisation practices. We start this financial year with 3 goals:
- Give teams the knowledge they need to maintain an ongoing awareness of their financial footprint, and opportunities to reduce it.
- Unify the worlds of finance and engineering via a common language
- Optimise everything
More about our benefits
Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.
More about Atlassian
Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
Atlassian is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all individuals participating in the application and interview process, and while performing job functions. Please note that you will have the opportunity to request accommodations at each stage of the assessment process. To request accommodations before scheduling an interview, please reach out to email@example.com and someone will follow up shortly.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, written in August 1789, is a central document of the French Revolution and fundamental to the history of both civil and human rights. It was strongly influenced by America's Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson; The Marquis de Lafayette, a veteran of the American ... Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836 | Gilder Lehrman ... On March 2, 1836, Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos, now commonly referred to as the "birthplace of Texas." Similar to the United States Declaration of Independence, this document focused on the rights ... PDF Declaration of Independence
Why Was the Declaration of Independence Written? - History.com
Who Wrote The Declaration Of Independence - constitution ... In his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson not only cited various transgressions committed by the British monarchy under King George III against the colonists prior to the Revolutionary War, but also borrowed elements from political theory written by John Locke - a colleague of Jefferson's, as well as a prominent political philosopher. Why did Jefferson draft the Declaration of Independence ... In a rented room not far from the State House, he wrote the Declaration with few books and pamphlets beside him, except for a copy of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights and the draft Virginia Constitution, which Jefferson had written himself. The Declaration of Independence has three parts.
Declaration of Independence - Bill of Rights Institute
PDF Lesson One the Declaration of Independence THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 3 Activity II 30 minutes A. In small groups, have students complete Handout F: Compare John Locke's Second Treatise of Government to the Declaration of Independence (Version 1 or 2). Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia It also has international significance, as it was a model for the US Bill of Rights 1789, and its influence can be seen in other documents which establish rights of human beings, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Modeling her declaration closely on the Declaration of Independence, Stanton extended it to list the grievances of women. The Declaration also called for the right for women to vote, a radical demand that helped launch the women's suffrage movement, leading, ultimately, to the recognition of voting rights for women in the nineteenth Amendment ...
The Declaration of Independence | American Experience ...
The Declaration of Independence, which contains the oft-repeated phrase "…that all men are created equal…" was written by Thomas Jefferson, who owned about 200 slaves at the time and never set any of them free, even upon his death.
Declaration of Independence Sells for $2.4 Million - The New ... Jun 14, 1991 · A first printing of the Declaration of Independence, said to have been found in a picture frame bought at a flea market two summers ago, was auctioned for $2,420,000 yesterday at Sotheby's. 4th Of July Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers 4th Of July Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers. What is Independence Day (4th of July)? A: Independence Day (colloquial: the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson | Scholastic
Who Wrote The Declaration Of Independence - constitution ... In his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson not only cited various transgressions committed by the British monarchy under King George III against the colonists prior to the Revolutionary War, but also borrowed elements from political theory written by John Locke – a colleague of Jefferson’s, as well as a prominent political philosopher. Why Was The Declaration of Independence Written? The reason was simple. If it would not have been for that, the Americans would not have got independence. That is one reason for the American colonies getting the independence and why the Declaration of Independence was written. The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence ... | <urn:uuid:7ed18895-283e-4c5f-8b81-44a9ce2e98c7> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 4,331 |
OLR Bill Analysis
AN ACT CONCERNING UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS.
This bill authorizes the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) to deny eligibility for state and federal law enforcement grants to any municipality whose police department fails to comply with the state's uniform crime reporting system's (UCR) reporting requirements (see BACKGROUND).
By law, under the state's UCR program, police departments must submit to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) commissioner, at such times as he prescribes, reports on the number and nature of crimes committed within their jurisdictions and other such information as he requires. DESPP sends the data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which compiles and publishes states' data annually in its Crime in the United States series. Under the bill, if a department does not submit the required report or submits a report with missing, incomplete, or incorrect information, the commissioner must notify OPM's Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division and the municipality's chief elected official, and OPM may deny the town eligibility for state or federal law enforcement grants. Information is considered missing, incomplete, or incorrect, under the bill, if so designated by the FBI or if not submitted within 60 days of the end of the month in which it must be reported.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2013
Under the UCR program, law enforcement agencies from across the country voluntarily provide data on crime within their jurisdictions to the FBI, either through a state UCR program, as is the case in Connecticut, or directly to the FBI's UCR program in states without a UCR program. Under Connecticut's UCR program, police departments submit crime data to DESPP, which must publish annual reports on the extent, fluctuation, and nature of crime in Connecticut. Nationally, the states' UCR data is used in law enforcement administration, operation, and management, and to indicate fluctuations in crime levels in America.
Examples of State and Federal Law Enforcement Grants
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG). This program provides states and local governments with funding necessary to support law enforcement and other programs. The program requires that 40% of total grant awards be set aside for local grant projects.
Stop Violence Against Women. This program encourages the development and improvement of effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to address violent crimes against women and the development and improvement of advocacy and services in cases involving violent crimes against women.
Police and Youth Program. The goals of this program are to promote positive youth development and increase the number of police officers who are experienced and comfortable interacting with youth.
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Convert 36 Long Tons to Short Tons
To calculate 36 Long Tons to the corresponding value in Short Tons, multiply the quantity in Long Tons by 1.12 (conversion factor). In this case we should multiply 36 Long Tons by 1.12 to get the equivalent result in Short Tons:
36 Long Tons x 1.12 = 40.32 Short Tons
36 Long Tons is equivalent to 40.32 Short Tons.
How to convert from Long Tons to Short Tons
The conversion factor from Long Tons to Short Tons is 1.12. To find out how many Long Tons in Short Tons, multiply by the conversion factor or use the Mass converter above. Thirty-six Long Tons is equivalent to forty point three two Short Tons.
Definition of Long Ton
A long ton is defined as exactly 2,240 pounds. The long ton arises from the traditional British measurement system: A long ton is 20 cwt, each of which is 8 stone (1 stone = 14 pounds). Thus a long ton is 20 × 8 × 14 lb = 2,240 lb. Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements standardised in the thirteenth century that is used in the United Kingdom
Definition of Short ton
The short ton is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18474 kg), that is most commonly used in the United States where it is known simply as the ton.
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Coasters are useful things to have on your tables. Whether you are having a drink in your living room or on your dining table, you would want a coaster set to prevent stains from occurring on the tables. For such reasons, coasters have been in use from time immemorial.
Coasters of different materials
Nowadays coasters come of different materials. You need not opt for wooden, heavy coasters only. You could opt for plastic, lightweight ones which can withstand high temperatures. At the same time, printed coasters have also come in vogue.
Printed photo coasters
With the advance of digital printing technology, nowadays photo coasters have also come into vogue. Photo coasters are available easily at several photo printing stores. Even gift stores have them. If you wish to customize and order such coasters for your home, you can easily get them by placing orders online. Nowadays several online stores take on orders for customized photo coasters. Such coaster can be of different print forms as seen below. Take a look at the images given below.
Here one can check out a pack of square shaped coasters with fond memories saved on print.
Here one can see how vibrant photo coasters are available in different resolutions and finishes.
You can get tiny photo frames as coasters as well which would help preserve happy memories.
Photos of your favorite music albums can be printed on coasters which are great gift items as well.
This set of coasters is based on the subway lines and city maps which makes them interesting.
This set of coasters offers pictures of different dog breeds which are great for dog lovers.
This set of photo coasters contain inspirational quotes and pictures of loved ones which are unique.
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1. Make a 400×400 document. Now press “D” on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is white.
2. Now apply select the Custom Shape Tool .
Now go up to the top Custom Shape Menu and choose the Registration Target #2. Looks like this (make sure you have all the shapes loaded and appended):
Make sure you have the Paths button select on the Custom Shape Menu:
Hold shift while you make the path, this will keep it 100% accurate. Your path selection should look like this (try and fill in the whole canvas with this path):
3. Open the Window>Paths. Right click the work area path and go to make selection. Use the default settings it gives you. Now paint your select Black.
4. Now apply Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and use these settings:
Press CNTRL+F to render the blur 2 more times.
5. Now apply Filter>Distort>Pinch and use these settings as well:
Also apply Filter>Distort>Twirl and use these settings:
6. Apply Filter>Stylize>Wind and also apply these following settings:
7. Set your foreground color to #25A4D3
Go to Filter>Artistic>Neon Glow and apply these final settings:
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Redefining southern nationalism : a political perspective ; an academic perspective
|Title:||Redefining southern nationalism : a political perspective ; an academic perspective||Authors:||O'Malley, Des
|Permanent link:||http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2217||Date:||2001||Abstract:||A political perspective:
Southern Irish nationalism was traditionally aggressive and negative, and tended to view Northern Ireland as a colonial remnant; but economic protectionism and isolationism did little to stem the flow of emigrants out of the country. Evolution under the leadership of Sean Lemass from 1959 onwards led to a more outward-looking Ireland, but the more negative aspects of Irish nationalism began to appear again in the 1970s. The tension between two forms of republicanism should be resolved, the author argues, by an effort by liberal democrats to reclaim the term for them-selves, redefining it as a belief in the primacy of the people through an exclusively democratic process.
An academic perspective: The phenomenon of nationalism, the leading political ideology of the late twentieth century, is intellectually opportunist and intrinsically revisionist. In Ireland, political cultural change and the break-up of the alliance between nationalism and Catholic triumphalism was delayed by a number of factors, including British-Irish tensions, the great depression of 1929, isolationism during the second world war and misguided economic and educational policies after 1945. Ireland missed out on the economic boom of the post-war period, much of its energy diverted into the pursuit of linguistic revival. Only in the last quarter of the twentieth century has rapid cultural change been associated with a new, more pluralist, form of nationalism.
|Funding Details:||Not applicable||Type of material:||Working Paper||Publisher:||University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies||Series/Report no.:||IBIS Working Papers; 1; Redefining the union and the nation: new perspectives on political progress in Ireland Lecture Series; 1||Copyright (published version):||The authors, 2001||Keywords:||Ireland; Nationalism||Subject LCSH:||Nationalism--Ireland
Ireland--Politics and government
|Other versions:||http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/filestore/wp2001/01_cri1.pdf||Language:||en||Status of Item:||Peer reviewed||Conference Details:||Revised text of two lectures presented as part of the seminar se-ries “Redefining the union and the nation: new perspectives on political progress in Ireland”, organised jointly by the Conference of University Rectors in Ireland and the Institute for British-Irish Studies. The lectures were presented in UCD on 3 April 2000.|
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The Dolphins’ long, bizarre saga of a season opener finally ended with Miami knocking down the Titans 27-20 in a game that lasted about seven hours.
It was the longest game in NFL history, but the wait was worth it for Miami, which badly needs a strong start to the season because of a backloaded schedule, and the win is a big one.
Ryan Tannehill made his return after missing more than a year because of a knee injury, the revamped defense looked very good, and the Dolphins knocked off one of last year’s playoff teams.
Here are five quick takeaways from the game:
1. Nothing’s ever quite normal for the Dolphins.
The Dolphins hoped all the weirdness of the 2017 season, which began with Hurricane Irma wiping out their home opener and continued with all kinds of fiascos, was long behind them.
However, the oddities continued with three hours and 59 minutes’ worth of stoppage because of lightning in the area. With 1:11 left in the second quarter and Miami up 7-3, a lightning strike prompted officials to clear the field. Players returned for a warmup period to finish the half, followed by an abbreviated halftime break and got halfway through the third quarter when they encountered another delay.
The only upside for Gase in was that he had some control over the circumstances. The restart plans were agreed upon by him and Titans coach Mike Vrabel during the stoppages.
2. Tannehill needs more jackpot gains from his skill players.
Much like in the preseason, Tannehill was very accurate against the Titans but it was mostly dink-and-dunk throws. He completed 15 of his first 18 passes before a brutal interception in the end zone midway through the third quarter. Prior to the pick, he was at 6.2 yards per attempt.
The outlier was a 75-yard bomb to Kenny Stills, who is the team’s homerun threat and can give them enough of a downfield presence to mitigate DeVante Parker’s absence.
But a big part of the Dolphins’ plan for the season appears to be trying to turn short, safe passes into long gains with electric runners like Albert Wilson, Jakeem Grant and Kenyan Drake. Wilson was the only one who really broke one, taking a quick pass for 21 yards late in the second quarter.
Tannehill, by the way, put up a respectable line in his return: 20 of 28 passes, 230 yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions.
3. Regardless of pressing needs elsewhere, Minkah Fitzpatrick was a good pick.
Everything Fitzpatrick has done since the Dolphins picked him No. 11 overall has validated their decision. He’s good enough to start for them at safety or cornerback, he’s picked up everything incredibly quickly and his debut will only heighten the expectations. He had six tackles and two pass breakups.
He’s playing slot corner for now, with Bobby McCain on the outside and Miami sticking with Reshad Jones and T.J. McDonald at safety, and made several nice plays against the Titans. His best moment was late in the first quarter when the Titans were at the 3-yard line and went for it on fourth down. Marcus Mariota threw short right to Corey Walker, and Fitzpatrick read it perfectly to stop him at the 2.
4. Frank Gore looks like he’s got plenty left.
The Dolphins maintained throughout the offseason that the 35-year-old Gore wasn’t merely a symbolic signing, and after a low-key training camp he came out charging in the season opener.
After an exasperating holding penalty by left tackle Laremy Tunsil threatened to derail a possession early in the second quarter, Gore cleaned it up for him with a 21-yard run to keep things moving and allow Miami to close out a stunning 98-yard touchdown drive.
The Dolphins opened with Gore and Kenyan Drake in the backfield, and while Drake is expected to be one of the stars of this offense, Gore gave a good indication that he’s going to be a contributor this year by rushing for 61 yards on 9 carries against Tennessee.
5. The Dolphins’ schedule might not be as tough as it once looked.
The opening week of the NFL season isn’t a good sample size to predict the rest of the year, but there were some results around the league that showed the Dolphins might have a better chance of getting through their schedule than some thought.
The biggest sign was Buffalo getting demolished 47-3 and turning to rookie quarterback Josh Allen before it ended. The Bills were a playoff team that swept the Dolphins last year, but they might be in a freefall this season. The Colts, a team that could bounce back now that they have Andrew Luck again, lost 34-23 at home to the Bengals.
If a few teams drop off from their preseason expectations, especially late in the year, the Dolphins might not need to be amazing to scrap for the final playoff spot. Being just OK is good enough if everyone else is falling apart.
[Lieser: Dolphins RB Kenyan Drake is growing up when team needs him most]
[Humbling restart for WR Leonte Carroo, who still wants to prove the Dolphins right for drafting him]
[Lieser: Dolphins coach Adam Gase and the fine line between confidence and delusion]
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Caricatures by V.G.Myers/Humorous Illustration
Cartoon below c Playboy, used with permission. March 2007
This is the first page of a St. Patrick's Day card.
This cartoon originally ran in Good Housekeeping magazine and has been licensed since, onto t-shirts, coffee mugs, and a few other items..
This is an example of a large painting, done in a stylized graphic/realism mode.
All artwork on this website copyright V,G,Myers unless noted otherwise and may not be reproduced in any manner without express written permission.
"What do you mean 'not tonight'? We've been cuddling for six months!"
"You're Standing too close!"
Cartoon below c Playboy Nov.2011 used with permission
St. Patrick's Day card illustration.
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Often the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain.
One form of play therapy that some of our therapists specialize in is sand tray. This is a safe way for clients of all ages to find some control over their lives in a healthy way.
Sand tray, or sand play as some models refer to it, allows a safe and contained space for the builder to create a world in the sand by selecting and placing different images representing real or imaginary people, places, or concepts in the sand.
Clients can choose from any of the miniatures representing the real and imaginary world in which we live, including people, animals, plants, buildings, fences, bridges, stones, vehicles, cartoon characters, safe and scary images, spiritual figures, and mythical creatures. The miniatures soon become a powerful way for clients to make sense of their lives and feel empowered by finding solutions through the sand. The builder has complete control of the world and often finds his/her own solutions through story telling about the world that was created.
How does it work? As infants even before we develop verbal language, the brain begins focusing on images to make sense of the world. The images often lead to story telling even without the use of words. This can best be understood by recalling a favorite childhood memory. Your brain will compose a visual picture of the memory even before you are able to articulate the memory with verbal language. Children are better able to grasp this concept since they are not tainted by the stigmas society tends to instill in us as adults.
Adults who are willing to try sand tray therapy often discover new revelations and peace through the sand. From individuals, to families, to couples, sand tray therapy is useful for all ages if you allow yourself to be open to the process.
The developing field of neuroscience is helping us understand the importance of communication between the right and left hemispheres of the brain in order for full integration and processing of experiences, including traumatic events, to occur. Sand tray, along with other experiential approaches, allows the right creative side of the brain to become activated in creating the world. As the “world” is witnessed by an objective, fully present therapist who is able to hold the healing space, the builder’s right side of the brain communicates with the left by translating the information into verbal language to explain it, make sense of it, and integrate it through their experience.
Therapists also incorporate the use of miniatures into other therapy approaches, including EMDR and mindfulness practice. The images help clients gain a clearer picture of their lives, find solutions within their control, be empowered through visualization exercises, and learn to be in the present. | <urn:uuid:95b310db-b9a1-4bef-9d53-b93f566a8c5a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,826 |
No One Will Ever Believe You
So My Mother, She Lives in the Clouds
This Book is Not For Sale and You’d Be a Fool to Buy It
When You Bleed to Death – Comic
When You Bleed to Death – Novel
Hypertrophic Literary Winter 2018
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One of the most famous and bloody incidents in samurai history is the story of the 47 ronin, a group of masterless samurai who extracted bloody revenge on behalf of their dead lord. The actual events of the incident are hard to parse out, as the facts of the events have been occluded by popular culture, drama, reinterpretation, and retelling. What we do know for sure is that in 1701 the daimyo of Ako (a domain near modern Osaka) was forced to kill himself after assaulting a courtier, Kira, in Edo. After the lord was dead, his various samurai were suddenly unemployed, and forty-seven of them planned revenge.
The traditional telling of the story is that Kira was supposed to instruct Asano in the ways of etiquette at the Shogun’s court, and that Asano was supposed to bribe him in order to be treated well. Kira was dissatisfied with Asano’s bribe, insulted the young lord, and, in a fit of rage, Asano drew his short sword and wounded the etiquette instructor. After Asano’s death, his samurai took it upon themselves to finish what Asano had started, and vowed to kill Kira.
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WASHINGTON — The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) commends members of Congress for taking swift action to pass a $2 trillion dollar economic stimulus package that will help American families, businesses and workers weather this unprecedented global pandemic. President Trump is expected to immediately sign into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This bipartisan action taken by Congress follows the recent passage of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and several pieces of emergency guidance released by the Trump Administration.
“The provisions in the CARES Act will help employers stay in business, keep employees on their payroll, and allow them to continue to offer benefits, including health insurance,” stated NAHU CEO Janet Trautwein. “The CARES Act expands access to coronavirus testing, improves telehealth and allows Health Savings Accounts to be used to purchase over-the-counter medications.
“NAHU and its chapters throughout the country are in unison regarding mitigating as much disruption as possible for healthcare consumers and employers during this pandemic. NAHU members continue to play a critical role helping people secure coverage for vital healthcare services, including testing and treatment for the coronavirus. They’re also trusted advisers for employers big and small who count on them to assist their employees when they have issues with their coverage or questions about their benefits.”
The National Association of Health Underwriters represents 100,000 professional health insurance agents and brokers who provide insurance for millions of Americans. NAHU is headquartered in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.nahu.org. | <urn:uuid:95250262-83a9-4f93-a630-80951db13c75> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,728 |
Hundreds dead, thousands wounded. On February 24, Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, declared a catastrophic, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a democracy of forty-four million people. On February 24, Russian troops invaded Ukraine from several directions and launched missiles all across Ukraine. By the mass, this is being seen as the start of Europe for Russia’s demands for an end to NATO’s eastward expansion.
This invasion predates the Russian military build-up that began in early 2021 when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy petitioned US President Joe Biden to authorize Ukraine to join NATO. Once Russia discovered this, it declared NATO’s post-1997 enlargement a threat to Russian security and presented the US with demands that NATO halts its eastward expansion, excluding Ukraine and other former Soviet countries from membership, and reduce military deployments in Central and Eastern Europe. These key proposals were disregarded by the West as too for the US and its NATO allies since they would turn back the clock on Europe’s security and geopolitical alignment by decades. This enraged Russia and led to its military forces growing around its Ukrainian borders, remaining vague on their intentions. By late 2021, thousands of Russian forces were sighted hovering on the border of Ukraine, surrounding it, which led to Western nations suspecting Russia of trying to invade Ukraine which led to the President of the U.S. having to call Putin and remind him of the severe sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine and if they did not de-escalate the situation as soon as possible because fear was escalating through the globe.
Essentially, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a rehash of that which began in 2014. The recent political developments in Ukraine, the United States, Europe, and Russia assist to explain why Putin may believe now is the moment to act. During his campaign, Zelensky promised to “reboot” diplomatic talks in eastern Ukraine, including negotiating directly with Putin to settle the situation. Russia, too, was undoubtedly hoping to gain something from this: Zelensky, a political neophyte, was seen as someone who may be more receptive to Russia’s point of view Putin wants Zelensky to enforce the Minsk agreements from 2014 and 2015, which then would not only bring pro-Russian territories back into Ukraine but also serve as a “Trojan horse” for the Kremlin to exercise power and control, according to researchers. It seems that none of the Ukrainian Presidents have accepted these demands, therefore under persistent Russian pressure, Zelensky has turned to the West for assistance, publicly expressing his desire to join NATO.
Imperatively, this conflict is not just about Ukraine’s future; it is also about how Ukraine has become a larger stage for Russia to try to reassert its influence in Europe and the world, and for Putin to leave his mark on history. Now the world is watching and nervously waiting to see what Putin will do next, as aggression is not a near certainty.
Jannat Irfan is an article writer at the Antarctic Institute of Canada and BSc Biological Sciences student at the University of Toronto.
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Every December, when “All I Want is You” begins playing on the radio, people are struck with the need to create, bake, and organize the ideal Christmas feast and decorate the house to perfection.
And despite Mariah Carey’s declaration that she doesn’t care about the presents under the Christmas tree, it seems vital to wrap gorgeous, Insta-worthy items. We all know we are not alone.
It is easy to get caught up in the dream of a flawless, magical Christmas and lose sight of the holiday’s impact on the earth. And it’s not just the presents themselves but also the wrappings.
Stanford University estimates that the average family in the U.S. creates 25 percent more garbage over the Christmas period than any other time of year.
According to Zero Waste Canada, Canadians toss out 545,000 metric tons of gift wrapping and shopping bags each year.
Shelley Ritzman considers the thought of purchasing single-use wrapping paper just to have it torn up and thrown away on Christmas Day quite depressing.
Ritzman, a policy coordinator for Metro Vancouver, is in charge of the Create Memories, Not Garbage initiative, which urges individuals to decrease waste throughout the Christmas season.
According to Ritzman, not all wrapping paper can be recycled. The “shiny, slippery stuff” that is hard to wrap with? It cannot be recycled with paper because it is composed of plastic.
In reality, you may manufacture your own patterned wrapping paper by cutting out tissue paper patterns, such as large red hearts, and pressing them between two sheets of wax paper.
It generates a beautiful, translucent sheet that’s more sturdy than the tissue paper on its own. If you are the kind to plan ahead (and have a little storage space), you can keep all the wrapping paper from this year and use it again next year.
In this way, it’s better not to use sticky tape because wrapping gifts with string, twine, or ribbon lets you open them without shredding the paper, so you can use large sheets of paper more than once.
A few warnings: don’t do this with plastic-coated wrapping paper, or you will ruin your iron. Use a cold iron and turn off the steam to avoid creating a soggy mess.
Can It Be Recycled?
Any glitzy, aesthetically pleasing wrapping paper is likely made of plastic; it might even contain glitter or glittery patches. 100% plastic if the reverse of the paper is reflective.
The scrunch test, which can be used to determine whether your wrapping paper is recyclable, involves twisting it up; if it bounces back, it is plastic and cannot be recycled.
However, this only works with plastic wrap. As a rule of thumb, if anything includes glitter or other aspects of a shiny, metallic design, it usually cannot be recycled.
In addition to your article, how have you assembled the package? Standard adhesive tape is likewise made of single-use plastic, but there are plastic-free varieties available.
Eco-Friendly Wrapping Paper
It does exist! Earth Greetings is one of the few places in Australia where you can buy environmentally friendly wrapping paper. They’re printed with eco-friendly colors, and the paper may be reused, recycled, or composted at the end of its life.
The prints are lovely; they collaborate with Australian artists and highlight natural animals. Additionally, they provide biodegradable washi tape as an alternative to adhesive tape.
Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese way to wrap garments, food, or other items. It is a terrific way to have fun and be creative with textiles, and there are different ways that you could use to knot your item(s) that will make them seem properly displayed.
A few experts teach more about furoshiki and give instructions for eight alternative ways to attempt them at home. To save on buying brand new fabric, why not take a look at your local charity store or make use of a lovely scarf that you have outgrown?
You could also add evergreen sprigs or pinecones to the knot of the cloth to make it look more festive. Occasionally, the cloth itself might be a component of the gift.
If you prefer wrapping gifts with paper, check around the house to see what you can find. The newspaper, magazine pages, old maps, and calendars can be utilized.
If you have children, don’t throw away their surplus artwork; use it as wrapping paper instead! If available, Kraft paper is enjoyable to decorate and wrap with, plus it is recyclable. Or, keep your brown paper bags and packing supplies.
As an alternative to plastic tape, you may use washi tape, which is biodegradable and available in a variety of vibrant colors and designs.
If you want to decorate your gifts, you can use things from nature like pine cones, berries, and sprigs of evergreen. And instead of purchasing plastic ribbon, use hemp or twine, or cut fabric scraps into strips.
Sometimes no packaging is the most enjoyable option. A treasure hunt’s chain of hints might lead the receiver to a present hidden in a closet or garage.
Also, use your imagination to avoid using tape. Ribbon may be used annually. Occasionally, thread or twine may provide an exquisite touch. A pair of holiday-themed shoelaces can be given as a present.
Safety pins or brooches may be used to secure fabrics in place. A few colorful hair elastics or a single scrunchie may suffice to hold everything in place for a little present. For a little bigger baby, a single stretchable headband may suffice.
And remember that Grandma was correct. The wrapping paper, tissue paper, and paper gift bags from any presents you receive can be reused with care. | <urn:uuid:802876f3-a98f-4187-be45-4bf13bbc56bc> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,528 |
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Military and intelligence history mostly dealing with World War II.
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IP30 Industrial PoE Switch with SFP
Environmentally Hardened Design
PLANET Industrial 8-Port Gigabit 802.3at PoE+ Switch, IGS-10020PT, is equipped with rugged IP30 metal case for stable operation in heavy Industrial demanding environments. With IP30 industrial case protection, the IGS-10020PT provides a high level of immunity against electromagnetic interference and heavy electrical surges which are usually found on plant floors or in curbside traffic control cabinets.
Being able to operate under wide temperature range from -40 to 75°C, the IGS-10020PT can be placed in almost any difficult environment. The IGS-10020PT also allows either DIN rail or wall mounting for efficient use of cabinet space.
Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks
The new generation of IGS-10020PT has the cybersecurity feature to protect the switch management and enhance the security for mission-critical network without extra deployment cost and effort. The new IGS-10020PT expands its memory and upgrades the kernel of SSH and SSL protocols to provide strong protection against advanced threats. It includes a range of cybersecurity features such as DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard, ARP Inspection Protection, 802.1x port-based and MAC-based network access control, RADIUS and TACACS+ user accounts management, SNMPv3 authentication, and so on to complement it as an all-security solution. The network administrator can now construct highly-secure corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.
Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Surveillance System
The IGS-10020PT supports redundant ring technology and features strong rapid self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates advanced ITU-T G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) technology, Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s MSTP), and redundant power supply system into customers industrial automation network to enhance system reliability and uptime in harsh factory environments. The IGS-10020PT also protects customers industrial network connectivity with switching recovery capability that is used for implementing fault tolerant ring and mesh network architectures. If the Industrial network was interrupted accidentally, the fault recovery times could be less than 10ms to quickly bring the network back to normal operation.
High Power PoE for Security and Public Service Applications
To fulfill the demand of High Power PoE for network applications with Gigabit speed transmission under wide temperature, the new IGS-10020PT provides 8 10/100/1000Mbps ports featuring IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) that combines up to 240-watt power output and data per port over one Cat.5E/6 Ethernet cable. With a total 240-watt PoE budget on the whole system, the IGS-10020PT is designed specifically to satisfy the growing demand of higher power consuming network PDs (powered devices) such as PTZ (Pan, Tilt & Zoom)/Speed Dome network cameras, multi-channel (802.11a/b/g/n) wireless LAN access points and other PoE network devices by providing PoE power, doubling that of the current conventional 802.3af PoE.
Convenient and Smart ONVIF Devices with Detection Feature
PLANET has newly developed an awesome feature — ONVIF Support — which is specifically designed for co-operating with video IP surveillances. From the IGS-10020PT’s GUI, you just need one click to search and show all of the ONVIF devices via network application. In addition, you can upload floor images to the switch and can remotely monitor or inspect an assembly line. Moreover, you can get real-time surveillance information and online/offline status; the PoE reboot can be controlled from the GUI.
Intelligent Alive Check for Powered Device
The IGS-10020PT PoE Switch can be configured to monitor connected PDs status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the IGS-10020PT will recycle the PoE port power and bring the PD back to work. It also greatly enhances the reliability owing that the PoE port will reset the PD power, thus reducing administrator’s management burden.
PoE Schedule for Energy Saving
Under the trend of energy saving worldwide and contributing to environmental protection on the Earth, the IGS-10020PT can effectively control the power supply besides its capability of giving high watts power. The built-in PoE schedule function helps you to enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals and it is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and money.
Digital Input and Digital Output for External Alarm
The IGS-10020PT supports Digital Input and Digital Output on its front panel. This external alarm enables users to use Digital Input to detect and log external device status (such as door intrusion detector), and send event alarm to the administrators. The Digital Output could be used to alarm the administrators if the IGS-10020PT port shows link down, link up or power failure.
Layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 Software VLAN Routing for Secure and Flexible Management
To help customers stay on top of their businesses, the IGS-10020 series not only provides ultra high transmission performance and excellent Layer 2 technologies, but also IPv4/IPv6 software VLAN routing feature which allows to crossover different VLANs and different IP addresses for the purpose of having a highly secured, flexible management and simpler networking application.
Robust Layer 2 Features
The IGS-10020PT can be programmed for advanced switch management functions such as dynamic port link aggregation, Q-in-Q VLAN, private VLAN, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, Layer 2 to Layer 4 QoS, bandwidth control and IGMP snooping. The IGS-10020PT provides 802.1Q tagged VLAN, and the VLAN groups allowed will be maximally up to 255. Via aggregation of supporting ports, the IGS-10020PT allows the operation of a high-speed trunk combining multiple ports. It enables a maximum of up to 5 trunk groups with 8 ports per trunk group, and supports fail-over as well.
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Creating a Foodie Wedding
If you and your partner identify as ‘foodies’, it’s likely you’ll want your menu to be a pretty big focus at your wedding. We doubt any of your guests will complain about that! A foodie wedding is a great way to add a touch of sophistication and ensure your day reflects your interests as a couple.
To help you create a menu you both love, we’ve put together some tips and wedding menu ideas to help you out.
Have Fun with your Foodie Wedding
A lot of couples who love food can become bogged down in created a wedding menu, which definitely takes the fun out of the whole thing. Throughout the process of tasting and selecting your wedding food, remember to have fun and enjoy the process! Be adventurous and don’t always stick to a three-course plan.
The hors d’ouevres you serve at your wedding are a chance to experiment with your wedding food and introduce your guests to a variety of flavours and food combinations. As a couple of foodies, this is a great time to experiment with more unique tastes, so play around and try something new!
Here are a few ideas from our wedding catering menu to inspire you:
· Spring wrap parcels of spiced aubergine, tomato & avocado
· Mini tarts of shredded chipotle pork & apple sauce
· Gruyere and sun-dried tomato tartlets
· Gin cured salmon on wholegrain toasts
· Chorizo stuffed dates wrapped in bacon
· Szechwan tiger prawns wrapped in fried noodle
If you love the finer foods in life, chances are you’re probably a big fan of cheeses. Why not incorporate a laid-back, fun cheese tasting into your wedding menu? You could either do this as part of your sit-down meal, or have an area set up where guests can go and taste the cheeses you’ve picked as and when they fancy it. A cheese-tasting is a definite sign of a foodie wedding!
Create a Dessert Bar
Dessert is a great time to get people up and involved, and often your guests will be ready to leave their seats and move around, so a dessert bar can be a great option. It also gives you the chance to experiment with a variety of different desserts – you can even make them bite-size for easy eating whilst your guests walk around and chat!
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· Apple, Pistachio and Pinenut Cake with apple glaze and apple granita
· Chocolate and Amaretto Cake with creme fraiche
· Butterscotch and Pecan Tart
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People are getting anxious to go out to eat, to have a few cocktails in a bar and/or restaurant, and Wisconsin has not yet put a shut down on those establishments. So, there have been many people crossing the border into Wisconsin. If you are anywhere near the metro, it's a quick and easy drive or ride share over to those places in Hudson.
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It seems that a lot of people were wanting to get together at a bar/restaurant, have some drinks and watch football on a Sunday afternoon. This type of gathering is not allowed currently in Minnesota, so what do you do? Travel across the border. What would the possible curfew be? That is yet to be seen...later today.
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During the “Alabama Fever” period of United States history, early settlers migrated to Alabama from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in search of more land to grow tobacco and/or distance themselves from the Revolutionary War. Many of the early pioneers settled in old Cahaba, Alabama. This county later was divided into more counties. Bibb County was one of the new counties with original settlers of Alabama.
Brierfield Baptist Church, Hwy 139, Brierfield, Bibb County, Alabama (Library of Congress)
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This book focuses on the pioneer families of FREDERICK MONROE JAMES (b. 1793-d. 1863) ADAM JAMES (1800-1884) HOPKINS LEE (b. 1765-d. 1834) STEELE FAMILY (who immigrated from S.C. ca. 1780), WILLIAM WRIGHT, (b. 1778 SC) and GEORGE PETERS (b. 1790 Italy) Genealogy reports with supporting evidence, notes, brief biographies, wills, deeds and census records, when available are included.
Descendant surname include: ADAMS, ARNOLD, AVERY, BAKER, BAMBERG, BARNES, BATES, BLAKE, BISHOP, BOLING, BOLLING, BOSCHUNG, BOYD, BRACKNELL, BRADLEY, BRAG, BRANSDORF, BROADHEAD, BURNS, CANTERBURY, CARDEN, CARR, CARROLL, CAUSEY, CATES, CHAMPION, CLARY, CONWAY, COOK, COOPER, COTTINGHAM, CREEL, CREWS, CROCKER, CRUNK, DAUGHERTY, DAILEY, DIXON, DOCKERY, DOVER, DREOLIA, DUGGAN, EASTERWOOD, ERVIN, FAIR, FARMER, FAUCETT, FAUCETTE, FERGUSON, FIKES, FONDREN, FRANCIS, FRIDAY, FRY, FULGHAM, GEORGE, GOLDEN, GREATHOUSE, GRIFFIN, HANCOCK, HAND, HART, HAYES, HILL, HOLLAND, HORTON, HUBBARD, INGRAM, ILES, JACKSON, JAMES, JOHNSTON, KINNAIRD, KIRBY, KORNEGAY, KROUT, LAGRONE, LAND, LARKIN, LEE, LEMLEY, LEWIS, LEVERT, LIGHTSEY, MADDOX, MAJOR, MARTIN, MASON, MCALLEN, MCBRIDE, MCCALEB, MCCULLEY, MCDOWELL, MCLEOD, MCMILLAN, MEDDERS, MEIGS, MERPHY, MESSER, MILLER, MILLS, MITCHELL, MONTGOMERY, MUELLER, MURPHY, MYRICK, NICHOLS, OGLESBY, OWENS, PALMER, PARKER, PEARSON, PETER, PETERS, PETERSON, PHELPS, PIERSON, QUINN, RAGLAN, RAGLAND, RAINES, REACH, REED, RITCHIE, ROAN, ROBINSON, SATTERWHITE, SHAW, SHOWS, SHUTTLESWORTH, SMITH, SNIPES, STACEY, STACY, STAMPS, STARLING, STEELE, STEFANICK, STEWARD, STEWART, STRICKLAND, THOMPSON, TIBBS, TUCKER, TURNER, VARNEL, VERNON, WAGGONER, WAGONER, WALKER, WALLACE, WARD, WOOD, WOODWARD, WOOLLEY, WRIGHT, WYATT, YEAGER, YOUNG
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Yep I am a Bibb County descendant
ton of mine listed
My dad was born in Bibb County but the Smitherman, Fancher, Lawley and Latham arent on that list.
All the pioneers have not been included in this one book. Check these two volumes for some of the names you mentioned. Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME II Compiled Records of BIBB COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME III
More books will be available in the future. Donna
Descendant of Wallace’s and White’s in Bibb County here…
I am a Bibb County descendant! Thought I would see Cox on this list also.
There are two other volumes of the Bibb County pioneers and more coming. Perhaps they are in those volumes. Many early settlers are from Bibb County.Compiled Records of BIBB COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME III Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME II
Same here with Nix. They came from Edgefield District , South Carolina to Georgia and then to Alabama settling in what became the Macedonia, Mulberry and Old Maplesville area in 1818.
my grandmothers last name was oglesby and they moved to Ala after the rev war. very interesting info
my mother’s people from Bibb Co..The Thrashers…Didn’t see on the list.
My Great Grandmother was a Hicks, and he mother was a Oakley. Did not see either
name on the list. Including Sims.
Mike Creel. Creel surname is mentioned in this article. Interesting
This reminds me of a church in Shelby County.
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My name is Divina Lawley and I believe that I am related to the Lawley family in Alabama
That’s when my direct line went to what is now Clay County.
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Pharm Ch. 4
Terms in this set (75)
motion of drugs throughout the body
source of major differences in responses to drugs
Examples of Individual Variances
All stages of drug movement through the body require molecules to cross...
Four Major Pharmacokinetic processes
What do the four processes determine?
concentration of a drug at its site of action
3 ways to cross cell membrane
1. passage through channels or pores
2. Transport Systems
3. Direct Penetration**
Passage thru channels
very few drugs can do this
must be very small
usually proteins in the cell membrane that move a drug molecule in or out of a cell
drug must be lipophilic
What 3 things must drug be to directly penetrate cell membrane?
Why is it important that the drugs are lipophilic, non-ionized, and non-polar?
Cell membrane is non-ionized and non-polarized
LIKE DISSOLVES LIKE
Amount of drug absorbed influences what?
Rate of absorption influences what
how soon effects of drug will show
site of administration to the blood
PO meds take how long to show effects?
What is the path of PO meds?
Go through GI to be absorped
Hepatic Portal System
Liver for metabolism
Factors that affect absorption
route of administration
rate of dissolution
How do IV get absorped?
Immediate absorption into blood
into blood directly
effects are immediate
What two forms can weak acid or weak base exist in?
ionized or non-ionized
Whether the drugs ionize or stay in uncharged form depends on what?
the pH of the surrounding environment
Where do acids ionize?
Where do bases ionize?
Once a drug is ionized can it cross membranes?
What do drugs want to do?
ionize so concentration gradient moves drug into the blood which is more basic
By feeding tube
Which route is preferred? Why?
IM is used mainly for what?
When is IV used a lot?
What three things does distribution depend on?
1. Blood flow to tissues
2. Ability of drug to leave vascular system
3. Ability of drug to enter cells
Is Blood Flow to tissues usually an issue in distribution?
no only with tumors and abscesses
Ability of drug to leave vascular system
affected by albumin protein binding
AND tightness of capillary junctions
Ability of drug to enter cells
this only applies to drugs that exert their effect INSIDE target cell
How do most cells interact with target cells?
most drugs fit into receptor sites on the SURFACE of cells
If a drug is ionized, does it have trouble leaving the blood? Why?
leaves through gaps
What mainly affects drug leaving the blood?
Why is it hard for drugs to pass the BBB?
very tight junctions
P-Glycoprotein to help drug exit
What is the most common carrier protein?
Can albumin leave the capillaries? Why?
No, it is too large
drugs attached to albumin are trapped in blood
Binding strength of drugs to albumin
different drugs have different strengths of binding
ex: warfarin 99% bound
What drug molecules can exit the capillaries?
Free drug molecules must leave to reach site of action
What does albumin do?
Helps drugs move through blood
ideally lets go of drugs so they can exit
If albumin doesn't let go of bound drug molecules what is the solution?
1. give higher doses
2. find way to break drug-protein complex
Why is exiting the vascular system so easy?
looseness of the endothelial lining of capillaries
What characteristics must CNS drugs have to cross BBB
1. lipid soluble
2. transport system
alteration of drug structure by enzymes
Where does most of metabolism happen
in the liver
What is Cytochrome P450 System ?
enzymes that promote metabolism in liver
CYP1, CYP2, CYP3
Possible consequences of drug metabolism
accelerated renal excretion
increased therapeutic action
activation of prodrugs
What molecules leave the urine the fastest?
How does liver affect metabolism
leads to toxicity
give smaller doses and more spread out
Age variation in metabolism
1 year old liver begins functioning
CYP variation in metabolism
more CYP enzymes = better
some drugs compete for the same CYP system
First Pass Effect
1st pass through through liver drug completely metabolized BEFORE reaching site of action therefor NO THERAPEUTIC effects
What is the solution to first past effect?
use different route
sublingual, topical, IV
Nutritional Status variations in metabolism
Enzymes for metabolism need proper nourishment to work
What is the main organ in excretion?
What are the steps of urine formation
passive tubular reabsorption
active tubular secretion
What are some other ways drugs are excreted?
How does kidney failure affect excretion?
risk of toxicity because less out through kidney and more is left in blood
solution: wait longer between administering doses
most drugs are small enough that they are filtered at glomerulus unless they are bound to ALBUMIN
lipid soluble drugs are mostly reabsorbed into the blood, non-lipid drugs are excreted
some drugs must be actively secreted into the urine
Why are plasma drug levels measured?
due to ease
correlation with therapeutic and toxic effects
Minimum effective Concentration
minimum amount of drug needed to acheive a therapeutic effect
level at which toxic effects occur
plasma drug levels above MEC but below toxic concentration
time required for amount of drug in the body to decrease by 50%
can be dangerous
still give drugs
nurse must monitor closely
T 1/2 determines
Desired plateau plasma level determines
When is plateau achevied?
when amount of drug eliminated between doses equals the dose administered
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A Discussion with Anthony Monaco, President of Tufts University
By Brian Wolf
Dr. Anthony Monaco, M.D./Ph.D. is the President of Tufts University and is a distinguished neuroscientist that focused his research on the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric disorders such as autism, specific language impairment and dyslexia. His research group at Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics first identified a gene specifically involved in human speech and language. As the thirteenth President of Tufts University, Dr. Monaco brings his experience as a biomedical researcher to contribute to Tufts’ excellence in education, research and greater engagement with society.
During your tenure at Oxford, your research appears to be primarily focused on identifying and characterizing genes involved in complex genetic disorders, such as autism and dyslexia. Can you please elaborate on your research?
Autism and dyslexia are called neurodevelopmental disorders, in which children have problems with the development of social communication (i.e., autism), language or reading. My research group wanted to take an unbiased approach using genetics to study these conditions because we knew that these disorders have strong genetic factors involved in their susceptibility. However, their etiology was a bit of a black box. We wanted to use an unbiased genome-wide approach, which scans the whole genome for variants in genes that increase risk. For example, in the autism field, with the benefit of an international effort, a large number of genes have been identified that encode proteins involved in synaptic connections. Our findings indicate that autistic children may have a deficiency in the connections between neurons, called synapses, which are important in neural processing. Regarding dyslexia, four candidate genes have been identified and my research group focused on one particular gene. Yet, all four genes seem to have a role in the process of neuronal migration. After neurons are born, they migrate to the right level of the cortex. We believe that the genes that we have identified are involved in this process. If you interfere with this process in animal models, neurons go to the wrong level of the cortex and this might interfere with cortical processing. In humans, if neuronal migration is even subtly altered, it may disrupt the development of reading. With respect to language impairment, we did identify one major gene, which is a transcription factor called FOXP2. This has a specific role in severe speech and language disorders. Looking at this gene evolutionarily, it seems to have a role in communication in other species, such as song learning in birds and ultrasonic vocalizations in mice.
How did you come to choose complex genetic disorders as your main research focus?
Starting with my graduate work, I focused on muscular dystrophy and identifying genes related to single gene disorders, for which there is usually one gene and one disease or phenotype. I then worked on the Human Genome Project and helped generate maps and resources for researchers to obtain the entire sequence of the human genome. It then became possible to use new technology, analytical tools and our knowledge of the genome to start to tackle more complex and common disorders in which we thought more than one gene was involved. As a result, a whole new institute, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, was initiated in 1995 to house core facilities, investigators with specific clinical cohorts, and genome resources to tackle some of these issues. Returning to my roots of neuroscience, I began to think about which common neurological disorders would be amenable to these genetic approaches. Ultimately, I focused on childhood neurodevelopmental disorders.
Genetic disorders affect individuals across the world and research on this subject is obviously conducted globally. What led you to do your research in England and how did your place of study affect the way in which your research was conducted?
That’s an interesting question because I originally went over to England for a two-year fellowship to work with a particular individual, Hans Lehrach, who had just established his laboratory in London. He was proposing a particular strategy that I thought would be a winning approach to map the human genome. After my fellowship ended, I received an offer to start my own laboratory at Oxford, which I accepted. In 1995, I began to use the tools of the human genome to understand common disorders such as dyslexia, language impairment, and autism. When I started these studies, it was relatively straightforward to recruit large numbers of families to participate because they were being assessed through the NHS (National Health Service) [Great Britain’s publicly funded healthcare system]. Due to the NHS network, we could interest many clinicians in the studies to help us organize the cohorts, which overall consisted of thousands of patients and their families. Using these clinical cohorts and their careful phenotypic assessment, we were able to dissect the genetic susceptibilities. These studies made it difficult for me to leave the UK, because, in order to be successful, I needed these resources and the long-standing collaborations.
In addition, scientific studies have estimated that 90 percent of autism risk is attributable to genetic factors and only 10 percent to non-genetic environmental factors. Do you agree and how has this information affected your research, if at all?
This is the traditional view and we always used this statistic, which is based on twin studies. This type of study examines the rate of autism between identical and non identical twins. However, recently, it has come under scrutiny. I think that it is interesting to look at new data with a fresh eye. The most important thing we have learned about autism so far, from both the twin studies and our identification of susceptibility genes, is that the behavioral outcome is not predetermined. If you have two identical twins with the same genetic makeup and one of them has autism in a severe form, it is not always the case that the second co-twin has severe autism. A significant percentage of the time, they will have a less severe form of autism and, sometimes, they are clinically normal. We conclude that while genes have a large influence on the outcome, there are other factors, which are developmental or environmental, that influence the final phenotypic outcome. The other thing we have learned from the identification of genes involved in autism is that they can have a role in other neurodevelopmental disorders, such as epilepsy, learning disability or schizophrenia. Genes do not encode for clinical diagnoses, but they encode for proteins, which help build the brain correctly. If something goes wrong in neurodevelopment starting from a genetic change, the final behavioral outcome is not always the same due to many other factors. The final result can be variable, whether it is autism, schizophrenia or learning disability. This was a big surprise to us and is not something we would have predicted from the start.
Have there been any practical applications for this research (i.e., early detection of autism)?
Yes, you can screen genes using DNA arrays to search for large deletions or duplications of genetic material in children with autism. This helps us to understand which genes harbor etiologic mutations that may give rise to autism. It can be helpful in a diagnostic situation for younger children in the family, who may or may not have symptoms of autism, and genetic findings can provide some guidance for risk. However, there are ethical issues with this approach because, as I said, these mutations do not always result in autism. For example, there is a concern that you may detect the same genetic change in a younger sibling of an older child in the family who has autism. Therefore, the question arises whether it is ethical to label that younger sibling to be at risk for potential problems if you do not know that the outcome is genetically predetermined. The detection of major DNA changes can be discovered prenatally, but we do not know enough yet about all the genetic factors in autism to offer accurate prenatal tests. It is not a single-gene disorder like cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy where you can perform a sensitive and specific prenatal test and provide genetic counseling to the parents. In the case of autism, all you would be able to provide is a risk factor. As we gather more information on susceptibility genes and other factors influencing outcome in autism, this information may be more useful in the diagnostic arena.
Are there distinct similarities or differences in the way medical research is conducted in America and in Great Britain?
One significant difference is that there are many well-developed and structured MD/PhD programs in the US. In terms of getting medical doctors interested in biomedical research as an academic career, the NIH funds these programs very well. In the UK, I believe that Cambridge has one of the only programs that offer a structured MD/PhD degree. For the other medical schools in the UK, most of the doctors obtain their medical degree first and then they have to apply for separate funding to obtain a PhD. It is a more tortuous route to get involved in biomedical research. Other than this discrepancy, I think basic biomedical research in the UK is as strong and productive as it is in the US. This is due to funding from the Medical Research Council, which is government supported. In addition, there are very good biomedical charities, such as the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK, which support research at the same level as government funded research.
As the new president of Tufts University, which includes the School of Medicine and the Friedman school of Nutrition Science and Policy, how do you view Tufts’ role in the global health community now and in the foreseeable future?
Tufts has an interesting mix of graduate and professional schools situated in one university. It is rare for a medical school to be aligned with very strong nutrition and veterinary schools and we should take advantage of the opportunities that poses. One of the roles that I am trying to play is to help stimulate and catalyze thinking across the schools in certain thematic areas. For example, we can integrate our activities better for life and health science fields such as neuroscience, cancer, obesity, infectious disease and global health. This is not to say that there are not already many fruitful collaborations between the schools, but I would like to put the activity on a better structural basis. I also would like to focus on the graduate and undergraduate programs that underpin the research conducted in these thematic areas. I hope that graduate and undergraduate students would be able to move across the schools to different investigators and projects in a more flexible, cross-disciplinary way.
As a scientist and an administrator, is it difficult to find a balance between the two? If so, how do you bridge this gap?
During my time as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford, I did continue to supervise my laboratory, but at Tufts I am not going to set up a new laboratory. It would interfere with my leadership role as president. Yet, by bringing my knowledge and scientific perspective to the position, I understand the importance of collaboration, openness, and transparency to solve complex problems, rather than trying to do it in a single, solitary laboratory. I think that this approach is relevant to the way in which a university works to solve complex, global problems. We cannot accomplish goals easily if we are separated in each individual discipline. Every discipline has its own limitations in how much progress can be made. By working together other disciplines complement the actions of one another. Only then we can come up with better and more innovative solutions.
Based on your strong Internet presence for Tufts, do you see social media as a vital source of communication in the medical and research field (i.e., the ability to create dialogue between researchers around the world)?
I originally got involved with Twitter because my colleagues in my research field were using it, particularly in the fields of neurodevelopmental disorders, genetics and psychology. Many of my colleagues had started to produce posts on blogs and tweets to broadcast the most recent work in their respective fields. I found it to be an interesting and personal way to keep up with what was going on in my field. In addition to looking through journals to find what is interesting, they were telling me directly what they thought was interesting. I realized quickly that not only could I communicate with people in my own area of expertise but also across different disciplines. Now, as president, I try to communicate with all sectors of the Tufts community, including students, teachers and faculty, using a variety of media as effectively as I can.
What advice would you like to impart to students who wish to embark on a career in the medical research field?
I think medicine is an interesting field because it opens a lot of doors. Not everyone who goes to medical school will then proceed to clinical practice as a life-long career. Individuals will consider roles in research. Others will study for further degrees and some will use their medical degree to work on global health policy or health care delivery or get involved in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. I do think that, like other professions, it expands your opportunities, rather than restricts them to one particular area. Most important, there are many different avenues to take to follow your passion in the field of medicine.
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Take a dirty snowball in space and hurl it towards the Sun. I dare you… and then make a prediction as to how that will look.
This is the problem comet scientists face when talking about how bright a comet will appear from Earth. They’re imaging a conglomerate of dust, ice and other materials millions of miles away. After figuring out where the comet will go, then they have to predict how it will behave.
It’s a science, to be sure, but an unpredictable one. That’s why it’s so hard to figure out how Comet ISON will fare when it gets closer to the Sun in November 2013. It could blow into pieces before arriving. It could break up when it gets close to the Sun. Or, it could live up to wildest expectations and shine so brightly you’ll be able to see it in daylight.
Veteran comet-gazers can name a few visitors that didn’t perform as well as predicted. Michael Mumma, who is with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s solar system exploration division, was the lead for the agency’s scientific campaign on many comets of the past few decades. In an e-mail to Universe Today, he shared what made three comets less spectacular than predictions.
Comet Kohoutek (1973)
Billed by some as the comet of the century, Comet Kohoutek was predicted to pass close to the Sun after it was discovered in March 1973. NASA initiated “Operation Kohoutek” to keep an eye on the comet from a network of observatories in the sky, on the ground and even telescopes in mid-air.
Mumma joked that Kohoutek was a great career launcher for him, as a spectrometer that searched for ammonia ended up getting sustained funding for further development. But the comet was a visual disappointment, he acknowledged.
“The hype surrounding Comet Kohoutek was inspired by two predictions of its possible brightness, made by a recognized senior comet scientist. The NASA spokesman chose to promote the brighter of the two, that predicted the comet would become as ‘bright as the full Moon’. He usually mentioned (softly) that we couldn’t be certain it would actually brighten that much – but the press usually ignored that disclaimer,” Mumma wrote.
“Actually, the comet really did fizzle, failing to reach even the fainter estimate – probably because at discovery it was far from the Sun and activated by something other than water ice. Under those circumstances, any prediction was bound to be highly uncertain.”
Halley’s Comet (1986)
Halley’s is the most famous periodic comet, meaning that it returns to the inner solar system over and over again. Its bright appearance made it show up repeatedly in the historical record, most famously in the Bayeux Tapestry after it arrived in 1066 shortly before William the Conquerer successfully led the Norman Conquest of England. However, astronomers in each era saw the comet’s appearance as separate, unpredictable events.
English astronomer Edmond Halley, in examining the astronomical record in 1705, supposed that a comet with similar properties that appeared every 75 years or so was probably the same comet. Ever since then, astronomers and the public alike eagerly await each appearance. The 1910 visit was particularly spectacular, making the press set high expectations for 1986. However, the comet was much further away from the Sun in the 1980s and was fainter.
According to Mumma, the comet did not actually fizzle. Many press reports just got the brightness of the comet wrong, leading the public to believe the comet was less spectacular than predicted.
“It was a bright comet, just as scientists predicted. However, it was much brighter in the southern hemisphere than in the northern, as predicted. From Christchurch (New Zealand), and again from Cairns (Australia), it was large and the brightest object in the sky – easily seen with the unaided eye.”
As a scientific sidenote, Mumma’s team probed the comet with NASA’s Kuiper Airborne Observatory and, using infrared fluorescence spectroscopy that Mumma developed, found water for the first time in a comet.
Comet Austin (1990)
In 1989, Sky & Telescope published a cover article on Comet Austin with the eye-catching headline: “Monster Comet is Coming!” As with Halley, many people anticipated this would be a bright comet, easily visible with the naked eye. In the book Hunting and Imaging Comets, United Kingdom amateur astronomer Martin Mobberley pointed out it was a great object in telescopes or binoculars, but not so much with the eye alone.
“Austin was less bright than some had predicted, but it was bright enough to permit major scientific successes,” Mumma added in his e-mail to Universe Today. “My team detected CO (carbon monoxide) and methanol in that comet, among the first detections of these molecules in comets at infrared wavelengths.”
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If you saw the Ladies Madison Laptop Tote review, you knew there was a second review coming your way. Samsill graciously sent the tote and the Microsoft Summit Laptop Backpack for my use. For the last 3 months, everyone in the house has used the backpack. My husband and I tried it in multiple environments. He used it at school and for work. I used it to consolidate my purse, diaper bag, and independent contractor equipment into one bag. We split the time using the bag and carried it everywhere we went. Want to know how the Summit Laptop Backpack held up over these months? Keep reading the review!
Specifications per Samsill’s website
Holds most laptops that are up to 15.4″ wide
Protective padded laptop compartment with Velcro security strap
Zip down pocket for media storage and accessory panels
Side pocket for water bottle
Two front zipper pockets and large center storage compartment
Fleece lined side MP3 player pocket with headphone exit port
Air-flow padding on back and shoulder straps
Light-colored lining to find items fast
Water resistant bottom
Quick drop pocket for keys and coins
Product Dimensions: 15.25″ x 8.25″ x 19.5″
Product Weight: 6 lbs
Material: Lightweight 1680D poly
When selecting the bag for review, what caught my eye were a number of features. The overall size, business casual look, and the multiple-use compartments would easily meet the needs of a student, professional, or even a multi-role mom like me. It also was trendy and looked convenient. Once the bag arrived, my online assessment was further proven.
In the case of Ronnie, he just finished his MBA in July! Congratulations!!! Besides towing his typical student gear, he also carried his laptop from work, engineering documents, SIRIUS radio equipment, and miscellaneous items (keys, phone, parking pass, etc.) in the backpack. He found it was a great way to carry everything and have it readily available. To spare you pictures of diapers, wipes, and unmentionable gear from my purse, I am using pictures from when Ronnie used the backpack. So, lets take a look at the backpack!
Starting at the top of the bag, the carrying handle joins the wide shoulder straps. This convenient feature allowed me to balance the load when lifting and carrying it like a tote. As you move down the padded straps, there is breathable, mesh fabric on the straps and along the back of the bag. At the bottom of the straps are fasteners to snap along your chest.
Moving around the bag, you will come to the first set of three compartments. By the way, each compartment on the backpack has a Microsoft labeled zipper. The first compartment is a fleece-lined pocket with a mesh holder and a headphone exit port. The concept of this pocket was great, but I did want more padding on the exterior. The mesh prevents my accessories from scratching but does not give enough padding for the bag being bumped or dropped.
Just below the MP3 player pocket, there is an accessory pocket. I did not use this one as frequently as the other pockets. For organizational purposes, I just need two small pockets. The MP3 one and a pocket I will detail in a moment, were my prime choices since they offered convenience and easy access.
On the opposite side is a pocket specifically designed for the beverage of your choice. It fits a water bottle, Diet Coke, and even a good ol’ Boulevard Wheat.
A feature I particularly liked on this tote was the waterproof and cushioned bottom. If you recall from the Ladies Tote, there was not much padding to the bag and made me nervous stashing a laptop. With the Backpack, the concern is lessened with the thick, vinyl bottom and extra padding inside. These features not only add protection, but keep the bag standing upright.
Look at the grey and black material for the exterior of the bag. They are a woven 1680D poly like the Ladies Tote. The only difference is that the poly was used for the edge piping, too. After 2 months of using the backpack every day, the piping frayed. Although the material showed wear on the piping, it stayed in good condition everywhere else.
Moving back to the top, there are six pockets along the front. Here are pictures with them all unzipped.
The back pocket measures 18″ deep x 11″ wide. It secures a laptop with a Velcro strap and padded holder. The space for a laptop measures 15″ deep by 10″ across. Directly across from the laptop holder are slots for disc storage. Between these two areas, there is ample room to store books and writing materials.
As you move to the next compartment, you will see it is a shallow spot measuring 7″ deep and 5″ wide. The pocket provides quick access to your keys, USB port, pens, etc. Making it even easier to find your gear is the orange parachute material inside. This fabric is found inside each of each compartment except two side pockets. By the way, this was my second most-used pocket since it easily held my wallet, cell phone, and keys.
The third compartment measures 16″ deep and 10″ wide. It has a catch-all mesh pocket with an elastic band, and the pocket measures the full length of the compartment. Overall, this compartment gives you plenty of room for more reading materials, your lunch, or things you do not want stored next to your laptop. What I liked about this compartment is that I could open it to get my gear, but not expose my laptop. The mesh pocket also held my Canon camera; and, being in the middle of the bag, there was some added protection.
The fourth and fifth compartments are also multi-use pockets. The fourth one measures 16″ deep x 9″ wide and has slots for pens, pencils, calculators, business cards, and other gadgets. Of the smaller pockets, Ronnie used this one the most. He put everything he would normally carry in his pockets here.
Just in front of this panel is a compartment measuring 6″ x 6″. It opens out and allows for you to quickly stash gear. Ronnie liked using it for his badge for work and parking pass. I was not as much of a fan of this pocket, since I did not like providing quick access to my stuff…to a potential thief or mischievous kid. It never failed, that was the first pocket the kids would open.
The final compartment was one neither of us used. With nine total compartments, we just do not carry that much stuff. Plus, when we would have the bag on the floor, we would typically just want to reach things from the top of the bag. But, this pocket might provide convenience for your high-maintenance-gadget-toting-friend. The mesh pocket within this compartment is split in half, and the pocket measures 9″ deep by 10″ wide.
For one final feature of the backpack, I need to discuss its bulkiness. The overall size is 19″ long and 15″ wide and makes it difficult for someone with a small frame to use. In contrast, it is ideal for a 6 foot or taller guy. Here is a picture of Ronnie (6’2″ with 44L coat) wearing the backpack. As you can see, it spans the width of his shoulders and most of his back.
Although it is bulky, the bag is compact for the amount of things it holds. When fully packed and unzipped, the bag measured approximately 13″ from the top view.
After taking this picture, I zipped up the bag. Check out how it compressed to 9″.
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Obtaining a Google Maps API Key
Google API key can be created here:
1. Click on the Google API Console button.
2. Log in with your Google Account
4. If you are logging in to Google API Console for the first time, it is necessary to create a Project or to select the existing one.
5. After creating a project the following screen will appear. Click on the API key.
6. The key needs to be without restrictions. Enter a key’s name and click on the Create button.
7. The following APIs need to be enabled if they haven't been added already.
Google Places API Web Service
Google Maps Directions API
Google Maps Distance Matrix API
Google Maps Elevation API
Google Maps Geocoding API
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Supplement No. 1 to
Circular Letter No. 5 (2005)
February 6, 2008
|TO:||All Insurers Authorized to Write
Accident and Health Insurance in New York State (Commercial Insurers), Article
43 Corporations, Health Maintenance Organizations, Municipal Cooperative Health Benefit
Plans, Fraternal Benefit Societies, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities
|RE:||Contact and Product Information for
Health Bureau Inquiries
STATUTORY REFERENCE: Insurance Law Section 308 and Public Health Law Section 2995
The Health Bureau of the New York State Insurance Department is collecting information from companies providing accident and health insurance. All Commercial Insurers, Article 43 Corporations, Health Maintenance Organizations, Municipal Cooperative Health Benefit Plans, Fraternal Benefit Societies, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities) must complete the following questionnaire and include company contact information, the types of accident and health insurance products offered, and the markets in which they are offered.
In addition, Chapter 451 of the Laws of 2007 requires the New York State Department of Health to collect preferred provider organization (PPO) data for public dissemination pursuant to the quality assurance reporting requirements developed by the Health Department in conjunction with the National Committee on Quality Assurance. In order to facilitate this collection, every Commercial Insurer, Article 43 Corporation and Municipal Cooperative Health Benefit Plan must indicate in the following questionnaire whether it offers a PPO or exclusive provider organization (EPO) product. For the purpose of this questionnaire, a PPO / EPO product is one that includes health insurance coverage through a network of participating providers.
Lastly, as a reminder, when any of your contact information changes, you must advise the Health Bureau immediately. If you have any questions, please contact John Tully at (518) 486-7815 or Lisette Johnson at (518) 474-4098.
Very truly yours,
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Texas manager Ron Washington gave Nelson Cruz the green light on 3-0, then watched the slugger put reliever Bobby Cassevah’s sinker into orbit.
Cruz’s tape-measure drive in the seventh inning helped Matt Harrison win his third straight start as the Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
“It’s fun to see how far it goes, but the main thing the situation it came in,” Cruz said. “I didn’t watch where it landed, but I watched it go far enough.”
Using a 34-ounce Louisville Slugger model No. R-13 that measures 35 inches, Cruz reached the championship flag poles in left-center. The ball was estimated to have traveled 484 feet, making it the longest home run in the majors this season, according to the Angels based on information from ESPN Home Run Tracker.
But teammate Josh Hamilton was quite skeptical.
“That’s not right. When we come back here, we’re going to bring a range-finder and we’re going to get an accurate measurement on that ball,” said Hamilton, the major leagues’ home run leader. “That was the farthest ball I’ve ever seen hit. When you think about it, unless the wall is lying — is says 387 to the wall, and 100 feet past that is 487. But the ball went another 100 feet past that. So I can’t wait to come back here.”
Cassevah took it all in stride.
“Butch came out before that pitch, so we knew he was swinging,” the right-hander said, referring to pitching coach Mike Butcher. “I was trying to throw a strike. But the sinker didn’t sink, it was right over the middle, and he got all of it. But a home run’s a home run to me, no matter how far they go. The hitter wants to see how far it goes. I don’t. I just go on to the next guy.”
Cruz said Washington also turned him loose on a 3-0 count his previous time up. He took the pitch out of the strike zone before a flyout to left field.
“He’s capable with one swing of the bat of doing exactly what he did in the seventh inning, and he was in a good position,” Washington said. “I told the team last night that I wanted us to get back to being aggressive, so I had to be aggressive, too. I just gave him the 3-0 hack and he did a good job with it.”
The victory ended a four-game skid by the two-time defending AL champions, who lead the Angels by 4 1/2 games in the West. The clubs play 13 more times during the regular season.
“Two out of three is not bad against a good team like Texas because they’re the champs, so you’ve got to be happy with it,” Angels outfielder Torii Hunter said. “We know them, they know us, and it’s going to be a battle all year long. Right now we’re getting by. We’re playing a lot better baseball than we did the first six weeks, but we’re a lot better than what we’ve shown.”
Harrison (7-3) gave up three runs, four hits and three walks in 6 2-3 innings. The left-hander, who started Game 7 of last year’s World Series for the Rangers, departed after giving up a two-out single to Peter Bourjos and a walk to John Hester, who had homered his previous time up.
“The thing I was really upset about was the walks and the pitch to Hester,” Harrison said. “Other than that, I thought I threw the ball well, but I’m not satisfied. I want to keep getting better, keep grinding and keep learning from the mistakes I make in games. I just want to keep on this roll, get deep into games and give us a chance to win.”
Mike Trout greeted Alexi Ogando with an RBI single and Alberto Callaspo walked, loading the bases for Albert Pujols, who cracked his bat on an inning-ending flyout to left field. The Rangers put it away with RBI singles in the ninth by Mike Napoli and Elvis Andrus.
Dan Haren (3-6) threw 104 pitches over five innings, allowing two runs and seven hits. The two-time All-Star, who is winless in his last five starts against Texas, ended a career-best streak of 25 strikeouts without a walk when Napoli drew a base on balls in the fourth. The franchise record for most strikeouts without a walk is 30, by Frank Tanana in May 1976.
“He’s a really good pitcher, so one thing you have to do with guys like that is lock in on the strike zone,” Texas designated hitter Michael Young said. “We tried to be as aggressive in the strike zone as we could be and not do him any favors outside the zone. And I think we did a fairly good job of that.”
Hester’s first home run with the Angels was a solo shot to left-center that trimmed Texas’ lead to 3-2 in the sixth, and was the first given up by Harrison in his last four starts.
The Angels, who had won 10 of their previous 11, got on the board in the fifth after Mark Trumbo drew a leadoff walk and came all the way around on a two-out double to left by Erick Aybar — Los Angeles’ first hit off Harrison. Aybar was 1 for 14 against him prior to that at-bat.
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The proposed project contains materials printed 1910-2000 by 20th-century immigrants to the United States and international publications dealing with US immigration. Most materials date from 1920 to 1970 and represent published output by groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe (including post-World War II displaced persons), Finland, and the Near East. These areas are core strengths of the IHRC’s collections, which also include archival and published materials from late 20th-century refugee groups and immigrants from Africa, Southeast Asia, and former Soviet territories. The IHRC has extensive print donated by individuals and community organizations to supplement and expand the Centers’s collections of immigration history monographs, ethnic newspapers, serials, kalendars, and jubilee albums. The Immigrant Publishing and Ethnic Print Project has been developed to group together primarily monographs and rare serials for which there is no researcher access. The project encompasses nearly 350 distinct units of materials in languages from Albanian to Yiddish, representing one-time and ongoing donations of materials from scholars, individuals, ethnic libraries and other community sources. Many groups of print are related to IHRC archival donations, but retention decisions have not yet been made for this print.
Immigration History Research Center
1200 linear feet
1910 - 2000
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Makes 2 drinks
To make the Persephone alcoholic, add two ounces of vodka to each drink.
Ingredientsadd to shopping list
- 1/3 cup dried culinary lavender*
- 2/3 cup superfine sugar
- 8 ounces pure mango juice
- 8 ounces distilled or tap water
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1/4 cup lavender crystals
- 2 ounces mango elixir
- 2 ounces pomegranate juice
- 2 ounces simple syrup
- 9 ounces soda water
- *Dried culinary lavender is available online or at some specialty food stores.
Make the lavender sugar crystals:
In a food processor, process the lavender and sugar until fully combined, about 1 minutethe mixture will look like a fine powder. DO AHEAD: Lavender crystals can be prepared in advance and stored, in an airtight container at room temperature, up to 2 weeks.
Make the mango elixir:
In a small saucepan, bring the mango juice and distilled or tap water to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to moderate and simmer, uncovered, until reduced by half, 12 to 15 minutes. DO AHEAD: Mango elixir can be prepared in advance and refrigerated up to 2 weeks.
Make the Persephone:
Pour the lime juice onto a small plate and spread the lavender crystals on a second small plate. Dip the rim of a 12-ounce glass into the lime juice, then dip it into the lavender crystals to lightly coat. Repeat with a second 12-ounce glass.
Pour 1 ounce each of the mango elixir, pomegranate juice, and simple syrup into each prepared glass. Add ice and enough soda water to fill each glass. | <urn:uuid:b4e6e4ef-e2ec-4955-8054-793decff514c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,494 |
1. Community-based research begins with and benefits the community.
2. Collaboration is an equal partnership with all parties having much to learn and much to teach.
3. Community-based research engages collaborating partners in all phases of the research process.
4. Everyone should have access to appropriate translated evidence based health programs.
5. Sustainable change and capacity building among partners promotes community health. | <urn:uuid:4d8de4da-268d-4c8a-8dfe-06087aa6fd42> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 438 |
Rhinovirus is one of the smallest types of virus, with a diameter of around 30 nanometers. Rhinoviruses contain single-stranded positive sense RNA as their genetic material.
An overview of rhinovirus
Rhinovirus (RHV) belongs to the family of small RNA virus, the smallest virus and 27 to 30 nm in diameter. It is a 20 dimensional symmetrical structure and its molecular weight is approximately 8.5x106 Dalton. And the virus core is the single strands of linear RNA, approximately 7500 nucleotides and has a white eggshell without an envelope outside the viral core.
Inhibition of rhinovirus
At present, some new antiviral factors can not only reduce clinical symptoms, but also reduce the incidence of acute otitis media, sinusitis, asthma exacerbation and bronchitis. In addition, they can reduce the incidence of respiratory infections by reducing the transmission of the virus. For example, studies have shown that interferon in the nasal cavity can prevent RHV infection, reduce the virus excretion and alleviate symptoms. Soluble intercellular adhesion factor-1 inhibitors play a role by preventing the combination of the virus and the intercellular adhesion factor-1 on the cell surface, which has a broad spectrum of activity for a variety of major RHV serotypes. Enviroxime is a classical viral RNA replication inhibitor, which is proved to have strong antiviral activity in vitro. 3C protease is a protein-encoded protease of small RNA virus, which plays a key role in virus replication and life cycle and is one of the most important targets of antiviral research at present. AG7088 is currently a representative 3C protease inhibitor with high antiviral activity and low toxicity and is a promising competitive inhibitor of human nasal viral C protease.
Rhinovirus and diseases
Respiratory epithelial cells are the target cells of RHV infection. RHV is combined with the specific receptor of respiratory epithelial cells, namely intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), and is reproduced in respiratory epithelial cells and local lymphoid tissues, causing inflammatory response. RHV is combined with ICAM-1 on the surface of the infected cells to cause cell infection in the canyon area. RHV can not only cause common cold, but also cause acute, chronic bronchitis and other respiratory infection diseases, especially the asthma in children.
1. Yang ZY, et al. (2010). Advances in rhinovirus research. Modern Preventive Medicine. | <urn:uuid:3a6276dc-a756-4406-8e25-ee923de374e6> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,443 |
Jesus how does she do that? It must be Amanda, nobody else can lie in a pose like that! I like the anatomy, especially the legs. I don't know if you had troubles on drawing her hand, but I think maybe you should give it some more details. Oh and her face really looks like a cat-like animal, so well done! | <urn:uuid:f6efe603-169a-412c-b0c8-07e3534d7fff> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 305 |
From International, January-April 1983, Vol.8 No.1 & 2, pp.14-18.
Downloaded with thanks from the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Marx carried out a revolutionary transformation of all social sciences. He revolutionized conventional approaches to philosophy, society, history, political economy, politics and the prospects of human emancipation. These transformations can be subsumed under the general formula of ‘the theory of historical materialism’. Key to this theory, argues Ernest Mandel, is the centrality of the revolutionary potential of the working class.
Marx viewed history as determined by objective laws which science could uncover. These laws derive from the specific structure and dynamics of each particular mode of production. These objective laws have to be discovered for each particular society. Marx simultaneously stressed the social determination of history as a science and the historical determination of sociology (and economics) as a science. There are no ‘eternal’ economic laws. There are only particular economic laws for particular forms of social organization of the economy.
But while endeavouring to discover the laws of motion of each particular mode of production, concentrating on the laws of motion of bourgeois society dominated by the capitalist mode of production, Marx rejected the mechanically deterministic view of history, characteristic for the French materialists of the 18th century (later to be largely recuperated by the vulgar evolutionism which influenced socialist thinkers like Kautsky).
Marx stressed the active aspect in history, so typical for human versus purely animal behaviour (this stress can be found not only in the Theses on Feuerbach, but also in Vol. I of Capital, not to speak about the Grundrisse and various philosophical and historical comments by Marx and Engels). Marx’s philosophy of history – like his philosophy in general – is a philosophy of praxis. Historical materialism does not deny that humanity makes its own history, which is not imposed upon it through mysterious outside forces. To be sure, men and women don’t make it independently from the circumstances they encounter, in the first place the material possibilities given by the existing and potential level of development of the productive forces, and the resulting possibilities for the extension of enjoyment, and the self-realisation of the producers.
But they do make their history themselves. Their level of consciousness and awareness of their own conditions and future, their degree of objective (scientific) approach to reality, the degree of self-delusion they still suffer, all strongly react upon the way in which they will shape their own destiny. Marx believed in the possibility of humankind to do just that to shape its own destiny, not only through understanding the objective laws of motion of society, but also through its capacity to actively attain emancipatory goals. Through Marx’s writing, there remains the emancipatory purpose: to abolish all social conditions which make men and women into oppressed, exploited, mutilated, miserable beings; to realize a society in which the free development of each becomes a precondition for the free development of every individual.
Thus, Marx was not only a social scientist. He did not limit himself to revolutionizing the sciences of society, history, economics, and philosophy. He also revolutionized politics and the drive towards human emancipation (‘socialism’), which are much older than bourgeois society, in fact, as old as class society itself. While it is necessary to separate methodologically his revolutions in science (which have to be judged from a purely scientific and not a ‘class’ criterion), from his revolutions in politics and emancipatory endeavours, these revolutions in thought and action constantly interact upon each other. Only if we synthesise them can we understand and represent Marxism in its totality, in its majestic richness, as a totality in movement, which has nothing to do with dogma or religion.
For the epoch starting with the industrial revolution, the totality of the theory and practice involved in Marxism can best be summarized through the revolutionary potential of the working class as the only social force objectively and subjectively capable of replacing bourgeois society (the capitalist mode of production) with a higher form of civilization and of socio-economic organization: classless society, communism, of which socialism is the first or ‘lower’ stage. This does not mean that for Marx and Engels the victory of socialism was an inevitable product of the inner contradictions of capitalism. Quite the contrary: they often stressed that human societies can, throughout history, either progress or regress; they can even disappear.
There is nothing fatalistic in Marx’s view of history, which asserts as a result of a scientific understanding of bourgeois society, and in light of the lessons of 3,000 years of class struggle, that no other class than the contemporary working class, ie, wage labour, has the potential to replace capitalism by a socialist society. The fate of humankind is for that reason tied to the victory of the world working class (from the German Ideology till his death, Marx always viewed the possibility of socialism as an international one, having to be realized on a world scale).
The destructive potential of capitalism, flowing from its very progressive features, in the first place its capacity to develop the productive forces but in specific forms which cannot shed its ties to private property, commodity production, competition and disregard for global social rationality, leads humanity to the crossroads: either socialism or barbarism. The awareness of the potential self-destruction of humankind (ecological disaster, nuclear world war, etc.) is today growing. But Marx and Engels were conscious of that danger nearly one and a half centuries ago. For them, the dilemma ‘socialism or barbarism’ (the formula was first shaped in that precise way by Rosa Luxemburg) meant: either the victory in the real class struggle of the existing world working class, i.e., world socialist revolution, or the decline and fall of human civilization, if not the disappearance of the human race. What Lenin, the Communist International, Trotsky and later revolutionary Marxists would write on that subject is already present in the basic economic and political works of Marx, even if he was not able to include the imperialist stage of capitalism in his analysis, as it had not started before his death. For him this dilemma was not a result of a given historically limited phase of capitalism. It was a result of bourgeois society, of the capitalist mode of production as such.
Scientific socialism, i.e., the revolutionizing of politics and humanity’s emancipatory endeavours, involves a series of transformations of traditional social and political practices which are as radical and as fundamental as Marx’s revolutions in the social sciences:
But the revolutionary transformation of politics which Marx achieved was to try and reunify the self-organization of the working class and the revolutionary activity of individuals. This implied simultaneously a separate organization of communists (of the vanguard, those who are permanently active at the highest level of scientific understanding and class consciousness, different from the masses, which under capitalism can be active only periodically and at a level of consciousness influenced more strongly by the ideology of the ruling class) and their integration in the mass organization of the class as it is. Trade-unions and independent political mass parties of the working class are useful and necessary stepping stones of that self-organization. But since 1850, and especially since the experience of the Paris Commune, Marx and Engels understood that the highest forms of self-organization of the class are those of the ‘workers councils’ (soviets), as analyzed in detail by Lenin in State and Revolution and in many writings of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci (Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Bukharin, Korsch and to a lesser extent the left Austro-Marxist Max Adler, also made valuable contributions to that same understanding).
Socialism can only come about through a successful overthrow of capitalism by a self-organized working class, i.e., through universal workers’ councils (soviet power), because only through that form of self-organization of the producers, can a postcapitalist, transitional society become a society in which the state starts to wither away from the very inception of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in which the crystallization of new material social privileges by a special group of people ‘in power’ can be made impossible. Marx and Engels’ writings on the Paris Commune, Lenin’s in State and Revolution, were lucid and explicit on these preconditions in which the variants of basic economic options can be democratically decided by the masses themselves.
All of these revolutions in Marx’s concept of politics and emancipation not only involve a radical transformation of the existing doctrines. They are also ‘negations of the negation,’ i.e., they imply the conservation of the ‘rational kernel’ in what is being transcended: utopian socialists, conspiratorial revolutionists, organizations limited to the elementary massive proletarian class struggle. All these revolutions turn around the revolutionary potential of the modern working class.
We deliberately use the word ‘potential’ instead of the word ‘class struggle.’ It is obvious that the real class struggle of the working class is not always revolutionary. Even less does it lead automatically to an overthrow of the bourgeois state or of bourgeois society. Elsewhere we have explained the reasons for this historical fact-of-life.
What Marx meant was that in the modern proletariat a class was born which could periodically reach a point in its struggles, coinciding with a deep social, economical and political crisis of bourgeois society and its state, where capitalism could be overthrown and power conquered, under conditions which allowed the building of a classless society objectively and subjectively.
As Marx did not believe that a victorious socialist revolution, not to speak of a victorious building of world socialism, would be the unavoidable outcome of the proletarian class struggle, he never allowed scientific socialism to be completely subsumed by that class struggle. Science continues for Marx and Engels to occupy an autonomous place in history. It is meaningless, irrational and criminal to suppress certain scientific truths under the pretext that they would ‘discourage’ the proletariat. Without the maximum of scientific insight, the maximum of truth attainable (‘absolute’ truth is of course unrealizable for human beings; the ‘total identify’ of being and consciousness is a utopian daydream), the proletarian struggle for emancipation is hindered, not helped. That is not to mention the immediate effects of such an approach which usually results in one-sided and mechanical interpretations of the possible variants open for working class action and consciousness.
One of the greatest wisdoms humanity has ever formulated is part of Marx’s famous Thesis on Feurbach: ‘the educators need themselves to be educated.’ Only is one assumes absurdly the existence of a person, or of a group of persons (‘the central committee,’ ‘the party’) who are ‘always right,’ can one seriously challenge the wisdom of that statement.
It has, furthermore, not only an epistemological but also a social dimension. The concentrated expression of class exploitation is the division of the social product into a ‘necessary product,’ and a ‘social surplus product’ appropriated by the rulers of society. Through control of the social surplus product, these rulers impose a frozen social division of labor between those who exercise the functions of production and those who exercise the function of accumulation. A key precondition for the building of socialism is the transcendence of that social division of labor through the gradual generalization of real self-management, conditioned by a high level of development of the productive forces, a radical shortening of the workday, and a growing fusion of manual and intellectual labor. But this is a gigantic process of self-organization and self-education by huge masses of producers. You cannot ‘order’ or ‘command’ people to … lead themselves. You can only help them to do that. And you don’t know exactly how this can best be done before the process unfolds.
The historical balance-sheet of all socialist revolutions since 1917 should lead revolutionists to modesty on that account. We know more today than Lenin and Trotsky did in 1917, not because we are wiser or more intelligent, but because we have had the advantage of much richer concrete historical experiences than those on which they could base themselves. But even what we do know today on the basis of that concrete historical experience is still pretty limited, be it only because the process of world revolution is far from having matured. It has not yet involved victories in the key countries, those where the proletariat has already become the absolute majority of the population before revolutionary victory. So the ‘educators need to be educated’ not only because they know too little, but also because they have to be involved themselves in a process of gigantic self-education by the masses, which has already started.
This means that the relation between a revolutionary vanguard organization, which is absolutely necessary for the victory of the socialist revolution and the building of socialism, and the self-organization of the mass of workers, which is likewise indispensable to achieve these goals, is a dialectical one, in which no part can achieve anything durable without the other.
For that very same reason, while the elementary class struggle of the wage earners is insufficient for the overthrow of capitalism, it is absolutely indispensable for achieving the level of self-organization without which a real social revolution in an industrially developed country is unrealizable. Great masses learn above all from experience, not through literary or oral education (which does not mean that such education is not vital for obtaining class independence on the ideological field). The only way in which they can assemble such experience is through the actual class struggle. So how they act currently will strongly influence how they think in the next ten or twenty years. That is why specific forms of current class struggles (large strikes, even ‘only’ for democratic demands, and so on) have so much importance for the development of revolutionary potential, i.e., for the capacity to react in a special way when circumstances are ripe for a revolutionary crisis.
If revolutionists do not know how to intervene efficiently in these actual struggles (e.g., under the pretext that they are ‘economistic’ or ‘reformist,’ or that the consciousness of the masses is inadequate or ‘wrong’): if they do not conquer credibility through this intervention, they will not succeed in fusing with the real movement of the class. But if they see their intervention as limited only to adapting to the given level of the class struggle, if they do not strive to elevate the level of class consciousness and self-organization through their interventions, they will not succeed in building a revolutionary vanguard party; they will not only become one of the innumerable factors in bourgeois society tending to prevent the working class from transcending the level of its elementary struggles.
Finally, while breaking with utopian socialism, Marx and Engels also stuck to its ‘rational kernel’ (they never stopped from having the greatest respect and admiration for Charles Fourier, who formulated one of the greatest and most radical critiques of class society of all times). They never narrowed down the purpose of the overthrow of capitalism and building of socialism to a simply ‘workerite’ project.
For them, the emancipation of humanity had to be total and global. A relentless struggle had to be conducted against all forms of oppression and exploitation of men by men (in the anthropological and not the ‘sexist’ sense of the word). That is why the emancipation of oppressed races and nationalities, the emancipation of over-exploited colonial and semi-colonial nations, the emancipation of women, the emancipation of youth, all have such an important weight in their political project – even if they themselves were limited by the social conditions under which they lived to understand all the dimensions of these struggles. The overthrow of capitalism, of private property, commodity production, and wage labour, is a necessary precondition for the successful achievement of these various forms of human emancipation. But it is not a sufficient one. Autonomous struggles of women, of oppressed nationalities and races, of oppressed youth, against innumerable prejudices, will continue long after the victory of the international socialist revolution in order to assist the birth of a really classless society, which roots out all forms of social inequality.
For Marx, the radical revolutionary potential of the working class flows from its specific place in the capitalist mode of production and from the consequences of the latter’s laws of motion for that class. Capital’s relentless drive to accumulate more capital leads to efforts to constantly expand the production of surplus-value. For there is no other final source of capital accumulation than the production of surplus-value in the process of production, e.g. through ‘unequal exchange,’ can only redistribute what has been previously produced. Therefore, the self-expansion of capital implies the constant expansion of wage labour. The modern proletariat is the only class in contemporary society which has the tendency to grow absolutely and relatively as a function of the very laws of motion of capitalism.
Of course, to understand this one has to define the proletariat in a correct way. It is by no means limited to manual labour in industry. That segment of the proletariat has long stopped growing and will tend to become weaker. Scientists or political militants who narrowly limit the definition of the proletariat to that segment of the class will sooner or later conclude that the possibilities for the proletariat to change society will tend to decline rather than to grow. For Marx, however, the proletariat was the Gesamtarbeiter, the ‘total worker,’ thus including white collar workers, technicians and even some managers, certainly also state employees, except the top managerial and functionary layers: in other words all those who remain under the economic compulsion to sell their labour power, whose income does not allow them on an individual basis normally to accumulate capital or to emancipate themselves from that proletarian condition.
The proletariat thus defined has not stopped growing throughout the history of capitalism. Today it encompasses half or more than half of the active population in practically every large country of the world (with the exception of Indonesia and possibly Pakistan). Even in India, this is already the case, for there is a tremendous agrarian proletariat or semi-proletariat of landless labourers (peasants) in the Indian village, besides the urban proletariat. In most of the developed industrial countries (including the so-called socialist ones) it has passed 75 per cent of the active population. In at least three countries – the USA, Great Britain and Sweden – it has passed the threshold of 90 per cent.
While this is clearly a case of quantity turning into a new quality, it is by no means only that. The development of capitalism creates in the modern proletariat not only a numerically predominant social force. It also creates a social force of tremendous potential economic power.
The proletariat is the only substantial human creator of wealth (independent peasants and handicraftsmen do create wealth, too, but on a world scale this is probably not more than 15-20 per cent of the totally annually created new product). The impressive material infrastructure of humankind – the mines, the factories, the railways, the airports, the airplanes, the road network, the machines, the automobiles, the power stations, the other sources of energy, the canals, the harbours, the cities, domestic equipment, the shops, storehouses and the huge mountains of commodities they contain, have all or nearly all, been created by yesterday’s and today’s wage labour. Inasmuch as intellectual labour becomes more and more proletarianised, an increasing segment of humankind’s knowledge, blueprints, patents, inventions, are likewise the product of the proletariat. If workers in that global sense of the word stop working through collective action, no power on earth can substitute for them and prevent all economic and social life coming to a standstill. Far from ‘emancipating’ society from the proletariat, the higher and higher mechanization and semi-automisation prevalent today makes more and not less vulnerable to real successful mass strikes, as we witnessed in France and Italy in 1968-69 and in Poland in 1980-81.
This would of course not be true in a ‘completely robotised’ society. But a ‘completely robotised’ society would be a society without surplus value production and without commodity production. It could never be approached, let alone reached, under capitalism.
All other classes in society, independent farmers, including in the Third World, independent handicraftsmen, independent professional people, ‘free-floating’ (freischwebende) intelligentsia, independent entrepreneurs, are condemned to see their relative and absolute weight in production and society tendencially and historically to decline and not grow, as the result of the operation of the very laws of motion of capitalism. Of course, this is not a mechanical, linear movement; there are medium-term conjunctural ups and downs; there are big differences between countries and even continents. But the basic secular historical trend is clear and unequivocal. The law of concentration and centralization of capital has been operating too long and with too clear an outcome for this thesis of the central weight of the proletariat in bourgeois society to be scientifically questioned (unscientific, impressionistic prejudices and straightforward ‘false consciousness,’ are, of course, another matter altogether).
Finally, through the very development of capitalism, the working class gradually acquires a revolutionary potential in the positive economic sense of the word. In the beginning of the ‘purely’ capitalistic production of surplus-value, the production of relative surplus value, i.e., mechanization, the worker is nearly completely subsumed under the machine: a slave of the machine as a slave of capital; and capital develops a peculiar type of machinery oriented towards the maximum extraction of surplus-value (quite other forms of technology and of machinery are possible, and were indeed experimented with but not widely applied, because they did not serve the capitalist’s goal of separate firms’ profit maximization).
But the very development of capitalist technology, after having reached a certain point, starts to operate in the opposite direction. Fragmentation of labour cannot continue infinitely, without beginning to decrease rather than increasing profits. In a highly technicised economic system, the human producers, as the least perfected ‘pieces of the mechanism,’ make the operation of the whole system more vulnerable. Capitalism itself cannot rely on more and more unskilled, brutalized, indifferent labour, operating with more and more sophisticated and expensive machinery. The costs of maintaining the value of existing fixed capital becomes outrageous, if everything is sacrificed to the production of new surplus-value (new capital).
So capitalism itself, especially late capitalism, has to start overcoming the fragmentation and atomization of labour. New labour skills are sought after more than unskilled labour. The reunification of intellectual labour and manual labour is not only the result of the massive reintroduction of intellectual labour into the direct process of production. It is also the result of the higher and higher training of a section of the working class. While the number of ‘drop-outs’ constantly grows (they constitute the new layer of the sub-proletariat) the number of highly skilled workers, of worker technicians, grows parallel to the first phenomenon.
This transformation is accompanied by a succession of political, social and economic crises of the system. So the basic attitude of the working class towards the ruling class starts to change as a result of the very operation of the long term laws of motion of the given mode of production. Till the post-first world war period, and to a large extent throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the workers respected the employers, even when they hated them. They thought, by and large, that you couldn’t run factories and the economy without bosses and ‘experts.’ But now, seeing the mess into which the employers and ‘experts’ have worked themselves (and all of us), they increasingly challenge the capacity and the right of ‘those on top’ to make things work. At least at factory level, and at the level of the cities, they increasingly feel that they have the capacity of making things run better (we don’t say in an ideal way, but better) than those on top. Again these sentiments, which were expressed very powerfully in the big strike wave of 1968-1975 throughout the capitalist world (and in Poland 1980-81 too!) might conjuncturally recede a bit under the impact of the present crisis. But if a first wave of that crisis has reduced somewhat the self-confidence of the working class, a second and harsher wave will make it rise again with a vengeance.
To this objective potential must be added a subjective one which is as important for the building of socialism as is the first. This subjective potential is likewise, for Marx, the very product of the specific place the working class occupies in the capitalist mode of production.
Capitalism not only increases the number of wage earners, their economic potential, and later their skills and levels of culture (the conquests of working class struggles of course contribute more to these latter achievements). Capitalism also concentrates these wage earners in huge work places (mines, factories, office buildings) where they are assembled by the thousands if not the tens of thousands. There, after long painful experiences with the opposite patterns of behaviour, which periodically still break towards the surface because they are ‘pure’ products of bourgeois society, the working class goes through a permanent practical school of social behaviour based upon co-operation, solidarity and collectively organized action, seeking collective as opposed to individual solutions to the ‘social questions.’
No other class can systematically achieve over a long period these patterns of behaviour as a result of its practical day-to-day experience and its overall social interests, as does the class of wage earners, certainly not independent peasants or intellectuals. Lenin can hardly be accused of having ‘underestimated the peasantry.’ But Lenin was clearer than any other Marxist as to the basic difference between the peasant’s and the worker’s attitude towards competition, commodity production, and therefore social behaviour based upon co-operation and solidarity.
Again, this is not an absolute rule, but a general historical tendency. It can be interrupted by the results of great shocking defeats of the working class, or huge historical disappointments, of extremely unfavourable material conditions (unemployment rates higher than 30, 50 or 75 per cent). But it reappears again and again, like the Hydra’s head, because it is rooted in the very socio-economic nature of capital and wage labour.
This social preparation of the working class to base its collective behaviour, its intervention in society, on the non-bourgeois ‘values’ of collective co-operation, solidarity and organization – the very antithesis of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois competition – gives it a powerful potential for social revolution. And gives it a powerful potential for rebuilding society on the basis of collective ownership of the means of production, of solidarity between all producers, of planned conscious co-operation substituting itself to ‘market laws’ as the basis of economic life, of the withering away of commodity production, money, economic inequality and the state, all of which are social preconditions for the successful achievement of a classless society, as is a high level of development of the productive forces.
The point is not that the working class is sure to accomplish all that. Nothing is sure in the bad world in which we live. Socialism is a possibility, nothing more. But it happens to be the only possible alternative to a collapse of human civilization if not to a disappearance of the human race. The working class is the only potential social force which could, under a given complex set of favourable circumstances, realize socialism. To deny the revolutionary role of the working class means to make a giant historical leap backward, i.e., to condemn socialism to become utopian, to become again a nice dream which will never be realized and which will therefore not prevent humankind from disappearing in a nuclear holocaust.
No proof can be offered, nor ever has been offered that other social forces – an association of intelligent individuals, third world peasants, marginalized sub-proletarians in the imperialist ghettos, ‘socialist state armies’ – have the social and economic power to take the fate of society out of the hands of Big Capital and to reshape that society on the basis of world-wide massive solidarity and co-operation between the producers. For that reason alone, it would be wise not to revise Marx’s concept of the centrality of the revolutionary potential of the working class for emancipating humanity as long as history has not presented us with definite proof of such a capacity. It would be equally wise to devote all one’s power and energy to helping the working class to realize that potential.
ERNEST MANDEL is the author of Late Capitalism, The Second Slump, Marxist Economic Theory, and many other works on Marxism. He is also secretary of the Fourth International.
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The very word Isaiah means “God is salvation”. Both his name and prophecies brought great hope for the humanity. Many people complain that they do not get help at the right time and life is not fair to them and there is no hope in life. What exactly does hope mean? Hope is “to desire something with confident expectation of its fulfillment.” Hope is not something merely life after death but present and historical. The state of hopelessness has been aptly described as a type of hell on earth, filled with endless despondency and despair. Hope is perhaps the most difficult of the three theological virtues to understand. It can be described as an unshakable trust and assurance that the promises of God will be fulfilled. By hope “we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit” (Catechism of the Catholic Church # 1817). Hope is mainly for the afflicted, oppressed and the deprived humanity that passes through the valley of tears, like those without plots/houses, the unemployed, the abused ones/GBV. The basic objective of Prophet Isaiah’s oracles of hope is boosting the morale of the people in the times of discouragement, frustration or suffering. No prophecy can be rightly understood but in the context of the mosaic covenant. In other words, covenant is the backbone of prophecy. The Prophets accentuate the conditional mosaic covenant. One such time is that of the wicked kings after the reign of Solomon. Isaiah had to promise the people who were suffering under the rule of such kings that a just king will come from the family of David/Jesse (Is 11: 1) who will rule with justice and righteousness.
Prophet Isaiah underlines the ingratitude of the people and their lack of faith in Yahweh. The foundational event of Exodus becomes also the paradigm for understanding the liberation of the Israelites from other nations like Assyria (Is 11: 16) where they were in captivity. In other words, the Exodus provides basis for hope in a new Exodus. This is most explicit in Isaiah chapters 40-55, where the return of the exiles from Babylon is picturesquely described. He appeals to the Exodus memory to demonstrate also that the God of Exodus is more powerful than the other nations (Is 7). This was essential as the Israelites often fell into the temptations of seeking refuge in other nations and of idolatrous worship. Many times, the prophets associate Exodus with creation and underline the fact that it is the same Liberator who is also the Creator (Is 51: 9-11). Hope is generated at the junctures of frustration of various bondages. Firstly, hope here is passion—a desire for future life. Secondly, hope is perseverance—the need to triumph in covenantal relation with God against great probabilities, and thirdly, hope is the belief that there could be something greater beyond those probabilities. There is always hope not because of what the humans have done or earned but because of the love and loyalty of God (cf. Is 48: 6-11). “Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Is 40: 31). Hope is not a human attitude, but it is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
In this wounded world brought to its knees by the coronavirus pandemic and other crises, including poverty, corruption, racism and violence, the Dalai Lama says in Time Magazine: “It is important that we think of the long-term challenges—and possibilities—of the entire globe. Photographs of our world from space clearly show that there are no real boundaries on our blue planet. Therefore, all of us must take care of it and work to prevent climate change and other destructive forces. This pandemic serves as a warning that only by coming together with a coordinated, global response will we meet the unprecedented magnitude of the challenges we face.” Past Exodus provides basis for hope in a new Exodus. This crisis shows us that we are not separate from one another—even when we are living apart. Pope Francis invites everyone to renewed hope in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti # 55: “Hope speaks to us of something deeply rooted in every human heart, independently of our circumstances and historical conditioning. Hope speaks to us of a thirst, an aspiration, a longing for a life of fulfillment, a desire to achieve great things, things that fill our heart and lift our spirit to lofty realities like truth, goodness and beauty, justice and love… Hope is bold; it can look beyond personal convenience, the petty securities and compensations which limit our horizon, and it can open us up to grand ideals that make life more beautiful and worthwhile. Let us continue, then, to advance along the paths of hope”- even after the electorate has spoken during the just concluded regional and local authority elections. God of life continues his saving work through different prophets of hope on the covenantal relationship of ‘loving one another’. God indeed will hear us and answer — but often in ways, and in timing, we did not anticipate. His ways and thoughts are higher than ours (cf. Is 55:8–9). Let us be vigilant against the false prophets as Advent liturgical season tells us. | <urn:uuid:99fdca9f-fad7-4e55-9569-09dac7b6a4b7> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 5,325 |
Type 2 diabetes: Healthy food swaps on Christmas day to lower blood sugar
Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which the body can’t control the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. The body doesn’t respond to insulin properly and may not product enough, causing a person’s blood glucose level to become too high.
- Type 2 diabetes: Best meal for breakfast to lower blood sugar
If blood glucose isn’t controlled properly and stays to high, it can lead to a number of problems, including kidney failure, nerve damage, heart disease and stroke.
Eating a healthy diet can help manage blood sugar, and as well as eating a wide range of foods, including fruit, vegetables and some starchy foods like pasta, and keeping sugar, fat and salt to a minimum, the NHS recommends eating breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.
But when it comes to the first meal of the day, breakfast, particularly on Christmas day, what’s considered the best breakfast for keeping blood sugar levels in check?
If wanting a couple of slices of toast on the day, Diabetes UK recommends switching from white toast to wholegrain versions like seeded batch bread, multi-seed, granary, soya and linseed.
It explains: “These are better for your diabetes and digestive health. They’re more filling too.”
Instead of jam it recommends trying a mashed banana.
Other healthy choices include low-fat cheese, cottage cheese with a coupe of fresh chopped dates, or note butter (one that doesn’t have nay additions like sugar or palm oil, and chopped banana.
Croissants, pastries and muffins are an ok choice, but should be kept as an occasional treat.
If you fancy something savoury for your Christmas day breakfast, the diabetes charity recommends oily fish instead of sausages and bacon.
It explains: “We should all try and reduce our intake of red and processed meat, and instead use oily fish such as heart-protecting salmon or kippers.
“They’re delicious served with scrambled egg, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms and wholegrain toast.
“Or why not try veggie sausages (just check the salt content).
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“It’s OK to have an occasional sausage or rasher of bacon, but try grilling instead of frying and remove any visible fat.
“You could also try topping wholegrain toast with scrambled egg, avocado, cottage cheese with edamame beans and tomatoes, or grilled tomatoes and mushrooms.”
When cooking your savoury breakfast you should try to limit the amount of oil you use.
Diabetes UK advises: “Cook with unsaturated vegetable oils, such as sunflower, olive or rapeseed, instead of butter or ghee.”
If it’s bowl of cereal you’re after on the day, it’s important to check the packaging for its content.
The charity says: “Although the packaging may make some cereals – like granola and cereal clusters – appear healthy, they are often full of free sugars and unhealthy fat. Some children’s cereals also have a lot of free sugar.
“Instead, why not switch to porridge? Porridge oats or the instant variety are both fine – just avoid those with added free sugars like honey and golden syrup.
“Wheat biscuits, shredded wheat or muesli (with no added sugar) are also great alternatives. For sweetness, add chopped fruit.”
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A king called all of his wise men and counselors together for a meeting. He addressed them and said, "I want you to go and think, read, and research. Consult the wisest and most learned men in the land. Spare no expense."
"I want you to find the ONE statement that will get me through all situations in life. Whether I am on top of the world or in the pits, find that statement."
"I don't want to learn long and complicated philosophies. I want one simple statement. Find it or write it; I don't care, just bring me the statement."
The men left and consulted for months. They finally returned and handed the King a scroll.
The King unrolled the scroll. On it was written four words.
"THIS TOO SHALL PASS"
That was it.
The wise men explained.
When you are on top of the world, that is but a fleeting moment, things change, always remember, this too shall pass.
When you are in the pits, all nights are followed by day, at your lowest moments remember also, this too shall pass.
All external circumstances and material things change.
No matter what your circumstances, remember, THIS TOO SHALL PASS!
The wise men reminded the great King that this would get him through his earthly things but the truly wise knew there were things beyond this earth and life. . .
Things that were eternal.
True wisdom they reminded the King was in the ability to recognize the fleeting temporal things of the material world from the truly eternal things.
O Great King they said, "Most of the things that you worry or gloat about are temporary and our four words apply."
For most of your situations. . . THIS TOO SHALL PASS!
Holy Quran says: All that lives on earth or in the heavens is bound to pass away (55:26)
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In December, we brought you the story of Melissa Paris, a former Scientologist who we got to know after her sister Valeska’s stunning claims that she’d been a virtual prisoner on Scientology’s private cruise ship from 1996 to 2007.
Melissa had her own shocking tales of growing up in Scientology’s “Cadet Org” in the UK. (The Paris sisters were originally from Switzerland and had been brought at a young age to England by their father, who had joined Scientology’s hardcore “Sea Org.”)
Since we profiled the Paris sisters, we’ve described the horror stories of others who experienced the Sea Org’s deprivations, including the strange office-prison at Scientology’s secretive headquarters east of Los Angeles.
Like other former Scientologists with harrowing tales of abuse and escape, Melissa says that she’s constantly asked one question more than any other: how did she put up with that kind of treatment for so long? So she decided to give us an answer that she hopes will help non-Scientologists understand the mentality of Sea Org workers.
She provided the following account, and I lightly edited it only for readability. I’m sure she’d be happy to answer additional questions from our commenters.
I’ve been asked so many times, why didn’t you walk away sooner? How could your father and brother disconnect from you? Isn’t family more important than a religion? Why do Sea Org members stay if it’s really that bad?
I was born into Scientology. Both of my parents were Scientologists, so I wasn’t given a choice about what my beliefs were going to be. I had Scientology beliefs drummed into me as soon as I was able to understand them.
Getting thrown into the Cadet Org at 4 years old scarred me for life. [A sort of pre-Sea Org for children, the Cadet Org was disbanded in about 1996 when an edict went out that Sea Org members could not have children. After that, women have come forward who say they were forced to have abortions when they became pregnant, a policy that was only recently changed, we hear, when media reports began to criticize the church for it.] I can’t explain the sense of loss that I felt when I finally understood that my mother had left me, that I didn’t have a true home anymore, and that my family had now been split up and I had no choice in the matter. We didn’t speak English, and we were put into a school where I didn’t understand the others. My dad wasn’t there to make the transition any easier — he was on the Estates Project Force, the Sea Org’s boot camp. I remember crying and crying those first few weeks. (Anyone that knows Scientology knows that to cry is low on the Tone Scale. To this day, I rarely ever cry. My ex-husband went eight years before he saw me cry. )
As Cadets and Scientologists, we learned quickly that showing any emotion other then a happy face wasn’t in our best interests. So I learned to hide my emotions and I was damn good at it. I hated my life and I stored up a lot of anger towards my father and mother for putting me into this environment.
In the mornings, we would “muster.” When I got slapped, spanked, or humiliated at muster for something I’d done wrong, I showed no emotion other then a smirk. On the inside I would chant, “You won’t break me, you won’t break me, you won’t break me!”
My mom left my stepfather Albert when I was 10 for my current stepdad Alex. It was like a dam broke inside me. All those years of hiding everything that I’d been feeling finally came to a head and I became mean, argumentative, difficult, and determined to make life hell for the people around me.
The next three years I became the problem cadet. I ran away, I fought other kids, I stole money to escape, I cursed, I yelled, I refused to be sec checked. The Sea Org wanted to declare me a suppressive person when I was eleven years old but they didn’t know where they would send me. [Declaring someone a “suppressive person” or SP is Scientology’s version of excommunication. All members in good standing must “disconnect” from an SP or face being declared themselves.]
So that’s how I became the first child the Cadet Org put on its own RPF. [The Rehabilitation Project Force is the Sea Org’s prison detail, and can take adults years to “graduate” from.] I was segregated from everyone. My parents weren’t allowed to talk to me, none of the cadets talked to me. I was on MEST work [menial physical labor] from 7am to 8pm. I had no contact with anyone. I was in a room by myself. I did this for months.
After heavy MEST work, barely any sleep, and serious lack of food, I had a breakdown. I started seeing things, I was so out of it. This caused a flap, so they sent me to my stepmother, Angela, who had been fitness-boarded out of the Sea Org. Once again I was on my own. I love Angela but she’s a very serious, stoic, a true English woman. My brother Raphael had always been her favorite and my sister and I knew it. I did my own thing, went to school, came home, had no contact with anyone.
The most vivid memory I have from that time is getting scared so badly by a Sea Org member threatening me with getting dropped off in the middle of East Grinstead by myself that I urinated on myself. I was that scared. I walked from Saint Hill back to Angela’s in wet clothes. A two-hour walk.
I always tell my sister that I wish people who are not Scientologists could understand the severe mental, emotional, and psychological abuse that we were subjected to. Yes, the physical abuse was horrific but it didn’t have the same impact on me. When I say that I walk alone, I mean that. I trust no one. I walk into a room and my first instinct is to look for every exit and plan my escape if I need it. I will never sit with my back to a room. I can’t handle people in my personal space and I hate to be touched. These are just some of the things that I believe are left over from my cadet days.
The only reason that I joined the Sea Org at the age of 14 is that I had nowhere else to go, no family member to live with. The Cadet Org and the Sea Org were all I’d ever known. I had just found out that that my stepfather Albert had died, I wanted some kind of family, and the Sea Org was that for me.
Any ex-Sea Org member will tell you about the complete lack of regard that you get treated with. You’re not a person with thoughts, feelings, or emotions. You’re there to work and “make things go right” and if you don’t do that then you’re fucked.
I started working to make money when I was 12, I lived on a park bench when I was 13 for a few days. I survived the Cadet Org. I’m tough, but the Sea Org was hard for me. The lack of sleep, the lack of good food, the lack of respect as a person. The Sea Org breaks you down. You aren’t an individual anymore, you’re just part of the “3rd dynamic,” Hubbard’s designation of a group.
I remember having done something wrong one time. I was 15 and Frank, a high-ranking Sea Org member, was pissed off. He shoved me against a wall and started screaming at me about an inch away from my face. He kept spitting, and I reached up and wiped it off my face. He lost it and kept slamming me against a wall in front of other Sea Org members, and they did nothing.
But you have to understand that we were so programmed to look the other way. He’s my senior and I’m not allowed to back flash (talk back). You are so scared that you’re going to be declared and lose Scientology and everything that comes with it, that you do nothing, and say nothing.
I’m the most argumentative person. I’m curious, I ask questions, I’m the most in-your-face person that I know. I’m brutally honest, I don’t do fake, and I’ll fight anyone that I feel is backing me into a corner. And yet, I sat there for 19 years and believed in Scientology enough that I disconnected from my mother when I was told to.
Parents that have lost their kids today don’t seem to understand that it’s the ones who are brought up in Scientology who are the most conditioned. L. Ron Hubbard is the god and Scientology is the only life we know.
I want all non-Scientologists to understand that there’s no other life for the lost souls that we were in the Cadet Org. We knew that we weren’t important in the grand scheme of things. We got broken down to the point where we had no thoughts of our own. We were the future of Scientology. I remember seeing a protest outside the walls of Saint Hill and thinking to myself, “What’s wrong with these people, we’re trying to save the world here.”
One of my fellow young members of the Cadet Org routed out when she was 15 or 16. Her mother and her sisters were in the Sea Org and her father had been declared years before. So she had no one to turn to. Nowhere to go. She ended up working as a prostitute in a brothel in Zurich, Switzerland. You do whatever you can to survive.
I hate the fact that I have a wall up and can’t let anybody get close to me, even my sister, who has had to fight to be in my life. I am jealous of people who have had intact families their entire lives. I feel for my daughter, who will never have the chance to get to know her grandfather or uncles.
It pisses me off that I miss my dad so much. To this day I tear up when thinking about him. That man was my best friend. He broke my heart when he disconnected from me. That hurt still hasn’t healed and it’s been 13 years. I’ll never understand how he could have walked away from me. But that’s life in Scientology.
All of those celebrities in the news are not the face of Scientology, we are. The broken ones, the kids who wandered the halls and were never important enough to be looked at, with their hollow bruised dirty faces, sad eyes and tear tracks. Unless you walked in my shoes then you’ll never understand, but I hope I have given a small glimmer of what Scientology really is. I’ll continue to walk alone, never broke, just badly bent.
Melissa Paris now lives in Texas, where she’s attending real estate school. She says she and her daughter Jade are doing very well.
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New readers might want to check out our primer, “What is Scientology?” Another good overview is our series from last summer, “Top 25 People Crippling Scientology.” At the top of every story, you’ll see the “Scientology” category which, if you click on it, will bring up all of our most recent stories.
As for hot subjects we’ve covered here, you may have heard about Debbie Cook, the former church official who rebelled and was sued by Scientology. You might have also heard about the Super Power Building, Scientology’s “Mecca,” whose secrets were revealed here. We also reported how Scientology spied on its own most precious object, Tom Cruise. (We wrote Tom an open letter that he has yet to respond to.) Have you seen a Scientology ad on TV lately? We debunked some of the claims in that 2-minute commercial you might have seen while watching Glee or American Idol.
Other stories have looked at Scientology’s policy of “disconnection” that is tearing families apart. You may also have heard something about the Sea Org experiences of the Paris sisters, Valeska and Melissa, and their friend Ramana Dienes-Browning. We’ve also featured Paulette Cooper, who wrote about Scientology back in the day, and Janet Reitman, Hugh Urban, and the team at the Tampa Bay Times, who write about it today. And there’s plenty more coming.
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n this activity you will practice using persuasive style in professional documentation. There are two parts to this activity. First, you will craft an internal memo considering the scenario described below. Then, you will write a memo to me defending and describing why you crafted the internal memo the way you did, considering style and genre strategies from Chapters 5 & 16.
Step 1: The Scenario
You are a manager at ValleyTech, a mid-size biotechnology corporation in the Great Lakes Bay Region, required to write a memo to all employees instructing them to participate in health and safety training.
The memo must contain the following information:
- All employees are required to the health and safety training class.
- The classes are mandatory and will be held every Monday and Wednesday at 8:00 am in room 305.
- Employees must complete one of these courses by October 11th, 2016 in order to be in compliance with company policy.
- Employees failing to meet this requirement in a timely manner may be suspended until the requirement is completed
As a manager, though, you are also aware of the following information:
- Two weeks ago, an employee had an accident in one of the labs at ValleyTech. He was exposed to blood born pathogens and has not returned to work since. Apparently he is ill, and the company is worried about possible legal ramifications for the incident since the staff was not properly trained in dealing with these sorts of situations.
- The majority of ValleyTech competitors require health and safety training as a part of their orientation for new employees.
- Coffee and donuts could easily be provided during the training.
- ValleyTech has hired a leading health and safety expert to come in twice a week for the next two weeks. Her name is Mindy Allen, and she is with Mid-Michigan Health and Safety Consultants, LLC.
- There is an online training program available, but the company is afraid if they offer this as an option that people will not attend the sessions with the expensive consultant they have hired.
- Employees actually have until the end of the calendar year to complete the training, but Mindy Allen will only be here until October 11.
- The Bureau of Labor reports that in 2006 for professional and business industries, there were two reported cases of occupational injury for every 100 employees. ValleyTech would fall in this category. ValleyTech currently has 1500 employees.
As you craft the memo, decide whether or not it would help persuade your audience to attend if they knew this information and if it is ethical to share such information. Incorporate this information as appropriate, considering the conventions of memos as described in Chapter 5 and persuasive style and other strategies from Chapter 16. Please Note: You do not have to include all of the additional information. You may pick and choose based on the rhetorical style you choose.
Step 2: The Defense
After you completed the internal memo, write a memo to me that explains and defends the choices you made and the ways in which you considered strategies from Chapters 5 & 16. This memo should be approximately 200-250 words.
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Ten years ago…
A soft patter of rain pelted my scales. I slowly sloshed out of the waist high marsh, thick with mud and algae. Remnants of dusk sifting through the tops of vine festooned trees began to fade as the sky clotted with a dark overcast. The air was heavy and humid, wafting scents of decaying wood and fungi. Torch bugs and bright yellow shines receded from the coming storm, taking with them their lights that reflected across the waters. I slumped down onto the moss covered floor.
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…so tired of killing…
As I stretched my palm over the injured arm, my healing spell closed the wound with bands of shimmering light. I let out a long placated sigh, savoring the magic’s warmth. After some minutes the gash was gone. Scratching an itch on my face, I felt the claw-mark scars streaked across my left jaw, still swollen and fresh. I chose not to heal them. They would remain a part of my visage, a reminder. My thoughts slipped away with exhaustion. I wanted to rest.
But my eyes would not close. I could hear footsteps slogging through the damp loamy soil. Slowly I came to my feet, hand resting on the hilt of a sword sheathed upon my belt sash. I turned and saw the figure of a woman standing behind me. An Argonian, same as I. The faint incandescence of the nearly set sun shone on her reptilian features and fawn colored scales.
“I did not expect you to run away like this, Okan-Zeeus,” she said. I clenched my weapon.
“Zollassa,” I hissed. “Are you here to kill me?”
“No,” she said. I looked away. My posture became lax, tail hanging limp.
“Then why do you care?”
“Cold words to speak to a friend.”
“I have no wish for conversation.”
Zollassa moved closer, her gaze meeting mine.
“You would rather run?” she asked.
“There is nothing left for me here,” I spoke plainly, “and I will not lie down and die for the wrongs of dead men.”
“Xhu,” she replied, “I understand.”
A sullen look crossed my face.
“No. I do not think you do.”
“Okan, you did nothing to deserve your sentence. I know this. Deerkaza, Mahei-Ru… they all know it. What you did–”
“Stop it, Zol. I never asked for your pity,” I interrupted, waving her aside. “They’ll kill you if they discover we’ve spoken. You mustn’t stay here.”
I began to walk away. The deluge was spilling with swelled force, splashing in the swamp’s mire.
“Okan-Zeeus,” Zollassa called out to me. “Where do you mean to go?”
“Far away,” I called in return.
“You know they will not stop looking for you.”
“If they wish to waste more lives in pursuit of me, let them,” I vexed. “I will endure.”
“So you will go on killing?”
I stopped walking.
“Only if I must,” I said, turning back, “but I will decide whose blood I spill. It will not be decided for me. Hence forth, this one’s sword is free, and I will wield it for all the good I can bring.”
There was a pause. Zollassa looked thoughtful.
“You seek absolution, then,” she replied, approaching me once more.
“As though I could truly earn such a thing.”
“There’s no need to earn it. Their deaths were not your fault.”
I glared. “How can you say that!? Have we not sullied our hands with the blood of countless souls?”
“Those are not the deaths I speak of.”
She must have learned what had happened. I looked deeply into the eyes of the last friend I had to leave behind.
“You believe I am blameless for their fates, too…?”
“I believe you never would have wanted this.”
“And that is why I no longer live for myself. All that I do from here, I owe to their memory.”
“You owe them nothing. They were happy in life. Why do you choose to carry this guilt?”
“Because I am the only one left who can!!” I roared, before my voice lost its strength, breaking into whimpered cries. “This guilt is mine, Zollassa! You of all should know – ours was meant to be a path of isolation, disconnected from the world. Those who bring death have no place among the living! I sealed their fates the moment their lives entwined with my own.”
“Do not say such things,” Zollassa beseeched. “You never wanted that. You loved them.”
“Of course I did!” I exclaimed, tears hidden by the rain beating upon my face. “But it changes nothing! I should have known better than to hope I could become anything more than what I am – a killer! A taker of lives!”
Zollassa’s expression became stern.
“Then why run?” she asked.
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COLOGNE- Combative justice minister, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, is already now allegedly preparing his inauguration speech, as the second Republic President of Zimbabwe, as the coast has been cleared, for him to replace President Robert Mugabe, The Telescope News, can exclusively reveal.
This publication reported early this year, that top army chiefs had struck a deal with Mnangagwa, to enable him to ascend to State House, and that calculated plan is now in motion, intelligence sources have revealed.
Mnangagwa appears to have scored early, against his number one nemesis, Vice President, Joice Mujuru in the race to succeed Mugabe. There are unconfirmed reports that Mujuru had tendered her resignation as VP to Mugabe yesterday morning, but Mugabe is said to have declined. Furthermore, the State media has now gone for the kill, in soiling Mujuru as a very corrupt leader, who is unfit to lead the country, following a chicken scandal story published today nailing her as having directed secretary of agriculture, Ringson Chitsiko, to issue her family business with a permit to import chickens from Brazil against a government embargo.
We also have been briefed that some “influential security elements” are mounting pressure to force Mugabe to call off Zanu PF’s elective congress, slated for the first week of December, and inaugurate Mnangagwa to finish his current term of office, which runs until 2018.
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THAT I, Abraham S. Groff of the Borough of Perkasie, county of Bucks and
state of Pennsylvania, being of sound and disposing mind, memory and
understanding, and considering the uncertainty of life, do therefore make,
publish and declare this to be my last WILL and TESTAMENT, in manner and form
following that is to say:
ITEM: I direct that all my just debits and funeral expenses to be fully paid
and satisfied, by my Executors hereinafter named, as soon as conveniently may be
after my decease.
ITEM: I hereby bequest the sum of one hundred dollars as a trust fund to the
Sellersville Church & Cemetery Corporation, of Sellersville Bucks County,
Pennsylvania; only the interest thereof to be used to keep the following lots in
said cemetery in seed and proper condition, to vit: south and east lots of block
#108; north and west lots of block #67; and north and west lots of block #62.
I hereby give full power and authority to my Executors hereinafter named, to
make either public or private sale of all real or personal estate of which I may
die seized, if it be to the best interest so to do. I also vest in them full
power and authority to make, execute and deliver good and sufficient deed or
deeds in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers thereof without liability on
the part of the purchaser or purchasers thereof to see to the proper application
of the purchase money.
I direct that all my jewelry is to be sold among my children only, the
highest bidder is to be the purchaser of the various articles, and the money
derived therefore is to be placed to the general fund. In case I should die
before my adopted daughter Minerva Shoup Groff reaches the age of sixteen years,
then and in that case, I direct my Executor hereafter named, to set aside, two
thousand dollars, as a trust fund; the interest there from is to be used for the
support of my adopted daughter, Minerva Shoup Groff, until she reaches the age
of sixteen years. After the aforesaid trust fund, of two thousand dollars is to
be distributed among my heirs, hereafter named and in the same manner as
I direct that Andrew C. Groff to the guardian of Minerva Shoup Groff, And as
to all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate, real, Personal or mixed, of
whatever nature of kind or wheresoever situate at the time of my decease. I do
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them should die before be, then it their heirs, a like amount. One part is to be
equally divided between the two children of my deceased daughter, Marietta Shoup,
namely Valeria Shoup and Minerva Shoup Groff, the latter who I have now adopted
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mothers' share. The four parts are to be equally divided between Andrew C.
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And lastly I do make, constitute and appoint Andrew C. Groff and H. Melvin
Groff to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking
all former Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made and declaring
this to be my last Will and Testament.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal,
the 20th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seven (1907). Signed, sealed, published and declared by the trustor
within named, as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who
at his request, is his presence, and in the presence of each other, have
hereunto subscribed over names as witnesses.
SIGNED - Abraham S. Groff
WITNESSES - Abraham M. bean
- Allen N. Weidenoper
Codicil to the foregoing WILL
I Abraham S. Groff having hereafter made my wil, dated the Twentieth Day of
Novembers in the year Nineteen Hundred and seven, which said will I now desire
to alter as hereinafter expressed, now I therefore declare this to be a Codicil
to my will as follow, to wit:
I hereby direct that the sum of Two Hundred thirty-one and 87/100 Dollars be
deducted from the share of my son William C. Groff, now deceased, which sum I
have spent on account of providing a home for his family.
In all either respects I fully confirm my aftersaid will.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto authorized my anme and affirmed my seal
this 10th day of June in the year Nineten Hundred and Eleven.
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WITNESSES - Chester A. Heuckviolto
- Frank Harr
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In the case of nuclear power plants, the waste in the form of ceramic compounds does not dissolve in water or the atmosphere. This waste is stored in underground and surface deposits in countries such as Finland and Sweden. They are so highly controlled and shielded that people can visit these places without additional protection.
Nuclear energy production is permanent, it does not depend on solar light or wind. Modern nuclear power plants are highly efficient and have continued function.
One of the most interesting arguments in favor of nuclear energy is that it produces less radioactive pollution; although this seems surprising, it is good to know that human beings have a natural resistance to normal levels of radioactive elements such as Thorium and Radon which are also sent to the environment in carbon burning processes. Carbon burning is so high that countries such as China are already taking measures to limit its excessive use.
For nuclear energy rejectionists, the most compelling argument is the Chernobyl and Fukushima incidents in Ukraine and Japan respectively. Chernobyl has been the most disastrous incident in history with 29 direct deaths due to the radiation. Further research showed no long-term radiation consequences, and a recent study published in Science Magazine confirmed that “the children of people exposed to occupational or environmental radiation do not seem to experience high levels of novo type (DNM) mutations” .
The environmentalists that use these nuclear disaster arguments avoid mentioning that in August of 1975, the Baquiao in China dam catastrophe caused between 90,000 and 260,000 deaths, surpassing the Chernobyl disaster by far.
Another environmentalist argument is that countries such as Germany have decided to completely eliminate their dependency on nuclear energy. But the cost has been enormous for Germany as it depends on countries such as Russia and France to supply its energy demand and slowly has turned into one of the highest carbon footprint producers in Europe.
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16 Aug Joint Tax Refund Ownership in Bankruptcy
Judge Rosenthal, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Massachusetts, recently decided the issue of who owns a joint tax refund in bankruptcy. The Court held that when a debtor and non-debtor spouse file a joint tax return, any tax refund will be presumed to be jointly owned in equal portions by the spouses.
Therefore, when only one spouse files bankruptcy and is entitled to a tax refund with his spouse, the spouse may keep one-half of the refund while the other half becomes property of the bankruptcy estate. Depending on the nature and extent of the debtor’s assets, the half portion of the tax refund may be subject to exemption after passing into the bankruptcy estate. The presumption of joint ownership is rebuttable only in narrow circumstances.
See In re Trickett, No. 07-44418-JBR (Bankr.D.Mass.2008).
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Pompano Beach-based startup AccuTour used a 3-D camera to create a virtual tour of the Boca Express Train Museum.
It can be held in your hand, but it contains technology capable of capturing eight decades of history.
The 12-by-6-inch black box is a high-tech 3-D camera that Pompano Beach startup AccuTour used to create a virtual tour of the Boca Express Train Museum at 747 S. Dixie Highway.
"For me as a curator, this is very valuable documentation of a rare historical resource that no amount of still photography or regular video can document," said Susan Gillis, curator for the Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum.
The society has not decided exactly what it will do with the footage, but it's likely to fit it into one of the educational programs, said Mary Csar, executive director of the society.
AccuTour used $7,000 in the latest technology to capture the images of the train depot. The 3-D camera, a seemingly ordinary 12-by-6 inch black box with a handle, spun on its axis and used about nine lenses to scan the roughly 4,800 square feet of museum and rail cars.
The footage was then uploaded to a program that stitched the images together on an iPad and spit out a raw data file, which AccuTour then polished. The result, the company's vice president, Quinton Winter, said, is like Google street maps for the inside of places.
Users can take self-guided virtual tours of the facilities or click a play button to be guided through it. The final product, which was available in a matter of hours, can be viewed on all platforms from phones to tablets to desktop computers.
"We've kind of perfected the art of it," Winter said.
AccuTour does similar projects for businesses across the tri-county area. The Boca project would normally cost just shy of $750, but AccuTour did it for free.
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This paper is the first in series of updated reports that were originally produced by the Global Energy Institute in 2016, each taking a substantive look at what might have happened in the past – or could happen in the future – if certain energy-related comments and policy prescriptions put forth by prominent politicians and their supporters were actually adopted. We call this the “Energy Accountability Series 2020.”
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Recently, however, some candidates for elected office have pledged to ban the very technology that has enabled this boom—hydraulic fracturing (HF), or fracking. This raises an important question: what would happen to American jobs and the economy if hydraulic fracturing was banned? In this report, the Global Energy Institute has undertaken the modeling and analysis to answer that question.
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Freshwater crabs are a great thing to add to a fish tank. They come in different sizes and colors.
Apart from just adding them to your tank for fun, they play a great role in cleaning the pond by eating the leftover food, and also remove the residue every day from the aquarium. Freshwater aquarium crabs are easy to maintain and they are affordable.
Freshwater Aquarium Crabs
In this article, we would be discussing the different types of Aquarium crabs, their features, how to care about them. We are sure that we would answer most of the questions that you have in mind after reading this article.
Freshwater Pom Pom Crab (Ptychognathus barbatus)
The crab is a true gem and everlasting nano aquarium specimen! This freshwater pom pom crab is a rare freshwater crab that has proven to be a very lovely, interesting, and durable member in the freshwater community.
The origin of the crab is Madagascar, Taiwan, and New Caledonia. The Freshwater Pom Pom Crab (Link to Amazon) is an omnivorous scavenger that can feed on almost anything ranging from items that collect on their “pom-pom”.
They also feed on algae and detritus in the aquarium and will also feed on food that are rich in plant matter.
The POM POM crab can grow up to 1.5 to 1.75 inches. The freshwater crab is very active and they are peaceful in their relation towards other tank mates. They are amply aquatic and are easy to feed.
The Minimum tank size required for the freshwater crab is 5 gallons and the required water temperature is 68° – 78° F (20° – 25° C). They must live in a suitable condition for them to live well.
Thai Micro Spider Crabs (Limnopilos naiyanetri)
Thai micro crabs are a fully aquatic crab that is a perfect fit for small tank aquariums, they are peaceful and they do not disturb other tank members. The minimum tank size for the micro crab is 5 gallon.
The required water temperature is 71.5-82.5 °F/22-28 °C. Thai micro crabs (Link to Amazon) are tiny brown-greyish crabs. They have a maximum cuticle size of around 1 cm. They have long and thin legs
Thai micro crabs are very peaceful in their relationship with their tank mates, they do not attack their tank mates and, most importantly, they are practically defenseless.
Because of this characteristic, they are very much suitable for a peaceful environment. So if you want something cool and peaceful, the thai micro crab might be the best way to go.
When preparing them with other organisms, they can put them is groups of at least 5. They can also be paired with peaceful fish such as pygmy corydoras and some small invertebrates like cherry shrimp.
It has not been easy to breed the Thai micro crabs; people have always recorded very low chances of success.
They are also called calling crabs. They can be found across the world in some sides of Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and the Indo-pacific. Fiddler crabs in these areas enjoy mangroves and muddy places. These habitats are coastal habitats with brackish water.
In the perfect condition, they can live up to 2-3 years, they are easy to maintain so it is easy for starters to keep them. Keeping them in a suitable condition will help to increase their life span.
The fiddler crab has an important survival skill which is the ability to survive both in and out of water. They have both gills and a primitive lung, which lets them breathe whilst in water and air.
One of most important structures that they have is their claws. Their claws can be used for courting the female fiddler crabs.
It can also be used for digging burrows as shelter or fighting with other male fiddler crabs over territory. They should be provided with multiple hiding places because they are territory, you can use rocks to give them somewhere to hide away.
Behind their claws are four more pairs of legs that are used for locomotion. This feature will amaze you; they molt in every eight weeks, leaving their old exoskeleton. A lost limb will be replaced at this point.
If you want to add any fish to the tank to form a community, the fish you include needs to be fast enough to get away from a rare attack of a claw. It is usually recommended to keep crabs on their own to protect the fishes.
Panther Crab (Parathelphusa pantherina)
Panther Crabs (Parathelphusa panthernia) are aquatic crabs that stay in water alone, they are fully immersed in water so they are perfect for a freshwater aquarium. They are predatory crabs; they may try to feed on other fishes, snails, and shrimp.
The panther crab (Link to Amazon) is an omnivorous scavenger and it requires a varied diet of mostly meaty foods like sinking pellets and some other frozen foods such as bloodworms. Calcium supplements (such as cuttlebone) are also not bad; this will help to maintain the health of their shells.
The Panther Crab is a little bit territorial, so you might need to provide them with some hiding places, most especially when they are kept with their kinds.
They might make an attempt to feed on slow-moving fishes. When you want to pair them with tank mates, they need to be kept with fast-moving species. Attempts to breed the Panther Crabs have proven negative. The adult species grow up to 4 – 5 inches in diameter.
The Panther Crab is known as an escape artist, so you need to provide the aquarium with a safe cover to prevent escape. The panther crabs are beautiful with their spotted pattern, they can be used as an alternative to crayfish, and they are one of the few aquatic crabs out there.
Purple Matano Crab (Syntripsa matannensis)
The Purple Matano Crab (Syntripsa matannensis) is also a fully aquatic freshwater crab; they live all their life in water. They are originated from Sulawesi in Indonesia. The Purple Matano Crab is one of the crabs that are perfect for your home aquarium.
They are omnivorous scavengers that can feed on almost anything suitable for them. They are good scavengers; they are also active and are unique in their appearance and behavior. They are usually scarce in the aquarium market, so you might just be lucky to have one.
The minimum tank size is 20 gallons and the required water temperature range is 80° – 85° F (26.7° – 29° C). The adult can grow up to 4-5 inches (11 cm) in diameter.
If you are looking for something purple and beautiful to add to your collection, the Purple Matano Crab is just the perfect match for you. Because they are territorial, remember not to pair them with sluggish fishes.
Red Claw Crabs
The Red Claw Crabs originate from Asia. They are both land and aquatic organisms. They can alternate between living in water and on land for air. The Red claw crabs do not have a backbone and are regarded as Arthropods.
They have an exoskeleton which performs the duty of protecting them from predators. The Red claw crabs grow with time and they get bigger, so they need to shed off their exoskeleton to allow them to grow. They need to hide in caves for a few days to allow their new exoskeleton to grow.
They can grow up to a length of 10cm in diameter. The males have larger and brighter red claws while the females have dark red claws which can be helpful when you want to identify the sexes.
The Red Claw Crabs are omnivore species, so they can eat both plants and protein. Examples are spinach, cucumber, brine shrimp, bloodworms and fish flake food.
When they shed their exoskeleton, they can even eat it, and this provides them with calcium which helps to strengthen their new exoskeleton.
The Red Claw Crabs can live up to 3-4 years when kept properly in good conditions. They can be kept within a community with other fish. These crabs are recommended for many reasons.
They help to clean up the aquarium, removing the fish leftover food, plant matter and some other materials. Be careful about keeping the lid on tight, because the red-clawed crab may try to escape.
Thai Devil Crab
Thai devil crabs are species that people now use as aquarium pets. The Thai devil crabs originate from Southeast Asia, especially the forests and rivers of Thailand. These freshwater species can grow up to 4 inches.
The most interesting thing about this is that they are very easy to maintain and they can live up to 5-10 years.
All you need to do is to get a healthy habitat for them and tend to their daily needs. You need to spice up your aquarium, why not consider adding this invertebrate to your collections.
The Thai Devil Crab is an important addition to freshwater because they are natural scavengers.
They work more than the algae-eating species of fish because they feed on leftovers, you just need to supplement their diet sometimes with plant matter, pieces of fish and they will do great.
The Vampire Crab is believed to be an undescribed species from the genus Geosesarma. The Vampire crab lives up to its name, it seize unsuspecting organisms unaware so you need to be careful about their tank mates.
The Vampire Crab are omnivorous crabs, they can feed on all kinds of dry food. They also feed on freeze-dried animals as well as earthworms and springtails. Sometimes, you can feed them with crickets. Vampires are nocturnal, which means they are active at night then in the day.
The vampire crab is one of the several crabs attracting a lot of interest right now and it is found on an island off the coast of Sulawesi.
They are being shipped regularly to Europe by making use of Jakarta. The organism has not been scientifically described, so there is no much information about the vampire crab for now.
The Vampire crab belongs to the genus (Geosesarma). The adult grows to a length of 2-3 cm /0.8-1.2inches. They are small and are perfect for small aquariums because they do not take much space.
Female Vampire crabs carry eggs about every six months and, they hatch 50 to 60 young crabs. The water temperature should be at 22-28°C/72-82°F.
They have low maintenance cost and they can live for 2-3 years.
Gold Leg Matano Crab (Parathelphusa ferruginea)
Looking for something colorful? Look no further! The Gold Leg Matano Crab is really colorful. The origin of the Gold Leg Matano Crab is the Lake Matano in the Sulawesi lake system of Indonesia. The crab is a fully aquatic freshwater crab that spends all its time in the water.
It has a purple carapace that is balanced with golden legs and sometimes might be lilac in color. In aquariums, the Gold Leg Matano Crab often grow to be around 3 inches, but they live long and they continue to grow slowly throughout their entire lives.
They usually prefer to spend most of their time at the bottom of the tank. You need to be conscious so that they would not eat the small fishes. The Gold Leg Matano Crab can tolerate a wide range of water conditions but this does not mean that they should not be well treated.
These crabs can live in a tank size of 20-30 gallon. The males show more color than females. Breeding these crabs have not lead to any success.
White Claw Sulawesi Crab (Syntripsa flavichela)
White Claw Sulawesi Crab (Syntripsa Flavichela) are aquatic crabs that stay in water alone, they are fully immersed in water so they are perfect for a freshwater aquarium. They are predatory crabs; they may try to feed on other fishes, snails, and shrimps.
The White Claw Sulawesi Crab is an omnivorous scavenger and it requires a varied diet of mostly meaty foods like sinking pellets and some other frozen foods such as bloodworms.
Calcium supplements (such as cuttlebone) are also not bad; this will help to maintain the health of their shells.
The White Claw Sulawesi Crab is a little bit territorial, so you might need to provide them with some hiding places, most especially when they are kept with their kinds.
They might make attempt to feed on slow-moving fishes. When you want to pair them with tank mates, they need to be kept with fast moving species. Attempts to breed the White Claw Sulawesi Crab have proven negative. The adult species grow up to 4 – 5 inches in diameter.
The White Claw Sulawesi Crab is known as an escape artist, so you need provide the aquarium with a safe cover to prevent escape.
The White Claw Sulawesi Crab is beautiful with their spotted pattern, they can be used as an alternative to crayfish, and they are one of the few aquatic crabs out there. Those that have one are very lucky.
How to care for your aquarium pet Crab?
As with any other pet, your freshwater aquarium crab needs to be provided with the necessary items needed for them to live in their artificial habitat. Examples in this category include a suitable environment, good water quality and the perfect food for them.
To start with, you need to get a good tank, the size of the tank is dependent on the type of crab you want to keep, and your budget.
The minimum size you can get is a 5-gallon tank. (You can get our other articles on the types of fishes you can keep with a 5-gallon tank).
You need to check the temperature, this is to make sure that you are making the tank as natural as possible. A temperature of 72-82 degrees F is perfect.
You can then spice up the tank by adding some decorations like rocks, stones, sticks, and plant materials. You need to cover the tank to prevent the crabs from escaping.
The next step is to fill up the aquarium with water of good quality. This is very important because it directly affects their health. All you need to do is to maintain the aquarium and enjoy.
Having discussed the different types of freshwater aquariums crabs, let us have a look at some questions that you might need answers too. Please read along!
Can Crabs live with fish?
There are five types of invertebrates that are common in freshwater aquariums: shrimps, snails, crayfish, clams, and crabs. These organisms have a different temperament .
The Fiddler crab is the most popular ‘freshwater’ crab for home aquariums. They are also called mini crabs. The answer to that question is yes. Crabs can surely live with fishes.
However, some crabs tend to prey on slow moving fishes. If you want to bring in fishes as one of the tank mates, make sure they are fast moving and smart fishes.
Or else, the crabs will turn them to their meal for the day. Please also note that when you add your crabs in the tank, make sure they can combine well with the fish that are already there.
Some Fish like cichlids are known for being aggressive towards crabs. You need to do your research to see if the tank mates would be compatible.
What do Freshwater crabs eat?
In the descriptions made earlier in this article, most freshwater aquarium crabs are omnivores. It is always recommended and advised to feed your crab a balanced diet of both plants and animals.
It’s a good idea to keep their diet fresh for them. Do not make the mistake of changing or switching their food.
Freshwater aquarium crabs can also eat protein or algae-based pellets. It is important to remove any uneaten food after three days. Your crabs might not know the difference between food and rotten food, so it is just better to keep it out of reach.
Can I put a crab with my betta?
Bettas are referred to as “fighting crabs”. Some fish should never be used as a tank mate for betta fish. These include crabs, which might harm the fins of bettas or even kill them.
The crab is an omnivorous animal, it can eat anything and if it gets hold of your betta fish, it will eat it. They are not good tank mates.
We hope this article has enlightened you on the best types of freshwater aquarium crabs that are available.
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Dwanya Porche Hickerson, 20, pleaded not guilty to the stabbing death of 25-year-old Dee Whigham, a transgender Mississippi woman, CBS News reports.
Hickerson, a U.S. Navy sailor from New Orleans, was charged with capital murder; he is accused of stabbing and slashing Whigham 119 times in a coastal Mississippi hotel room in July.
Whigham had been visiting friends at the time. They found her body in their hotel-room shower.
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Hickerson is being held without bond.
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For several decades, we’ve all been told that carbohydrates should be the foundation of our diet and our primary source of energy, while dietary fats (the fats found in food) are bad for us. It all started when some scientists studied the effects of different types of fats on health, and determined that some fats — such as trans fats — are bad for us, and that other types of fats are actually healthy and necessary for proper bodily functions.
However, the message to the general public got oversimplified, and nutrition experts starting telling us to cut all fats out of our diets. As a result, low-fat, reduced fat, and fat-free foods started lining the supermarket shelves. The low-fat message is now so ingrained in our culture that many of us reach for these foods without even thinking about it. After all, it sounds reasonable: if we don’t want to be fat, we shouldn’t eat fat.
Unfortunately, it isn’t really that simple. When fat is removed from food, a lot of the flavor is lost. To compensate for this, food manufacturers typically add more sugar or artificial food additives. And it’s these types of ingredients — not fat — that play a large role in weight gain and many other health problems facing Americans today.
Did you know …
Health conditions such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are virtually unseen in parts of the world that follow a more traditional hunter-gatherer diet. In fact, these diseases are so closely linked to the modern Western diet (high in carbohydrates and processed foods) that they are often referred to as diseases of civilization. Our diet is without a doubt the biggest determinant of our overall health.
What if everything we’ve been told about carbohydrates and fat is wrong?
Recent research indicates that there is no association between dietary fat and the risk of heart disease. There is, however, a link between simple carbohydrate consumption and health issues such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and cancer. And yet refined carbohydrates like bread and pasta continue to occupy the widest space at the bottom of the food pyramid (or a full quarter of the more recent MyPlate model). Health and nutrition experts like the Institutes of Medicine continue to tell us that 45-65% of our energy should come from carbohydrates.
Meanwhile, emerging research on low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets has shown that they lead to greater weight loss, help regulate hormones and improve insulin sensitivity, and are linked to lower rates of mortality and cardiovascular disease when the low-carb diet is vegetable based.
Benefits of a ketogenic diet
Low-carb, ketogenic diets can lead to numerous health benefits, including:
- Weight loss
- Increased energy
- Better sleep
- Clearer skin
- Increased mental clarity
- Improved sinus health
- A more stable appetite and decreased food cravings
- More stable emotional health and fewer mood swings
- Decreased LDL (bad) cholesterol
- Increased HDL (good) cholesterol
- Lower blood pressure
- Improved blood sugar control
A caveat about ketogenic diets
Research is increasingly indicating that there is no one-size-fits-all diet that works for everyone. Your individual genetics play a huge role in how your body processes and responds to different foods. (That’s why the same type of diet can lead to improved health in some studies and greater health risks in other studies.) Some people thrive on a raw food diet, while others (myself included) get shaky and hangry without animal protein. Just because something works for your friend or coworker or spouse, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you. I started my ketogenic diet only after a DNA fitness test reported that my ideal diet type was low-carb. It’s important to listen to your body and do what works best for you.
What can you eat on a ketogenic diet?
You might be surprised to learn just how diverse and delicious a ketogenic diet can be. Depending on the state of your current diet, it may take a little getting used to, but a ketogenic diet shouldn’t feel like deprivation.
A ketogenic diet is typically characterized by consuming very low carbohydrate levels with the intent of achieving nutritional ketosis — a state where your body shifts from using carbohydrates as its primary form of energy to using fat.
A ketogenic diet consists of low carbs, high fat, and moderate protein. The typical macronutrient breakdown for a ketogenic diet is 5% carbohydrates, 75% fat, and 20% protein.
- Carbohydrates: Most of your carbohydrates should come from leafy greens and green vegetables.
- Fat: Healthy fats include meat, nuts, seeds, fatty fish, olive oil, coconut oil, and avocado.
- Protein: Aim for healthy sources such as grass-fed beef, organic chicken, and wild-caught seafood.
Following the guidelines for low carb / high fat / moderate protein, you can create a nearly infinite array of meals consisting of meat (including beef, poultry, and seafood), leafy greens, non-starchy vegetables, healthy oils, nuts, seeds, some fruit, and spices.
When you’re just starting out, don’t make things overly complicated. Once you get more comfortable figuring out your macros, you can get more creative with your meals. There are a lot of delicious low-carb recipes out there, but many of them are low on veggies. A good general rule is to always include a salad with your dinner. Check out my list of keto diet foods for your best sources of macronutrients.
Once you start getting adapted to the diet, you will likely find that your appetite levels off and you don’t need to eat as much. Keep your protein portions on the smaller side. Contrary to popular belief, the ketogenic diet is not high-protein.
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Common Pochard are becoming increasingly uncommon in East Glamorgan. Looking at my own Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS ) site, Roath Park Lake, you only have to go back ten years or so and you’d regularly see 50+, occasionally 100+, birds there during the winter months. Now, I’m more likely to see only 5 or 6. But this phenomenon isn’t only happening here. Wintering Pochard numbers are dropping across the UK.
But what’s driving this decline? Well, the Duck Specialist Group, through the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the UK has set up a project asking people to record sex ratios of Pochard in the hope this will give them an insight into reasons for declines.
If you’re lucky enough to record Pochard whilst out birding this winter – in East Glamorgan or elsewhere – can you please make a note of the male to female sex ratio at the site and submit these additional data via the Pochard Survey website? You’ll find out a lot more about the survey on this site and, if scroll down to the bottom of the survey’s webpage, the link you need to click on is ‘CLICK HERE to submit your data’. This takes you to a survey page which is very easy to fill in.
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The House Martin – known as Gwennol y Bondo (‘The Swallow of the Eaves’) in Welsh – is well known to many people. From April to September it lives cheek by jowl with those lucky enough to have this energetic little bird nest under their eaves. In recent years however, the numbers breeding in the UK have fallen by two-thirds, leading to the species being amber listed as a bird of conservation concern and in need of some help.
Although the decline hasn’t been quite as severe in Wales as it has been in England, we’ve also seen a substantial drop in numbers here too. The species was confirmed as breeding in only 98 tetrads in East Glamorgan between 2007-11, down from 173 tetrads between 1984-89 – that’s a drop of 43% (source: East Glamorgan Bird Atlas).
This recent decline has prompted the BTO to launch a House Martin Survey in 2015. It is a first step to help us discover more about this species, to identify why they are declining and to provide scientific evidence to help inform policy decisions that could reverse the declines.
How can I help?
We need volunteers who are willing to carry out two or three visits to a randomly selected (i.e. pre-selected) 1-km square between late May and mid-July, to look for House Martins and their nests. By surveying random squares, we will be able to assume that our results are representative across a wider area, and produce a robust population estimate against which changes in the future can be measured.
How long will each visit take?
The survey visits will involve walking around the square looking for House Martins and their nests and mapping and recording a few details about any nests that you find. In most squares each visit will normally take around one to two hours – however, the visit length depends on the habitats within the square: visits to urban squares may take longer, whereas visits to squares with only a small number of buildings may take less than half an hour.
What do I do next?
You can take part by registering on the BTO House Martin Survey. You’ll then be able to find and request a vacant 1km square near you, as well as find out more information about the survey.
Alternatively, please contact me directly and let me know which one (or more) of the 1km squares listed above appeal to you. The green markers represent the squares currently un-allocated, the blue markers are those that have already been allocated to a volunteer. If your choice has not already been allocated to another volunteer by the time I hear from you, then that square will be all yours! If you need more information before you volunteer, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me for a ‘no obligation chat’.
Marsh Tit has experienced a marked decline in the UK, and its conservation listing has recently been upgraded from amber to red. It is not a common bird in East Glamorgan, with presence being recorded in just 15 tetrads in winter and 17 in the breeding season during the current Bird Atlas project.
A new study, just published in Bird Study (Broughton, 2010) suggests that habitat fragmentation may be a contributory factor in the decline of the Marsh Tit population in Britain. Results suggest that dispersal behaviour was sensitive to habitat fragmentation, resulting in poor settling success outside of the natal wood.
Both natal (juveniles) and breeding (adults) dispersal of Marsh Tits in fragmented woodland in an English landscape dominated by intensive arable agriculture was recorded. Spatial distribution of movements and settling locations for adults and juveniles were also documented.
The study population had short dispersal distances. Juveniles disperse further than adults, and females disperse further than males. These distances are however, small. Often no more than 1-1.5kms or 3 territory widths. Few birds became established outside of their natal patch and few birds settled in vacant territories in peripheral outer woods. Its possible that birds are unwilling to cross areas of non-habitat.
Though suitable habitats may be available for this species then, the fragmented nature of these available areas may hinder this species ability to occupy them.
Broughton, Richard K. , Hill, Ross A. , Bellamy, Paul E. and Hinsley, Shelley A. (2010) Dispersal, ranging and settling behaviour of Marsh Tits Poecile palustris in a fragmented landscape in lowland England, Bird Study, 57 (4): pp 458 — 472. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2010.489316 | <urn:uuid:86d41f5d-2676-45ce-a41f-baa10c25895a> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 5,647 |
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Art and Tech Synergy: Corinne Takara
Position: Art Education Specialist
District/School: Alum Rock Union School District/Horace Cureton Elementary School, San Jose, CA.
Number of Students in School: 572
Reviewer's Note: The entire 5th Grade class of 69 students participated in the project.
Reviewer’s Project Notes:
The You are Here Street Banner Project is designed to engage in exploring community identity and geometry through photography and digital pattern design. The patterns created by the students were printed as digital textiles and used as ‘furoshiki’ (Japanese eco-friendly wrapping cloths) and as textiles for public art installations. The final expression of the project for the Cureton Elementary Students will be large street banners for the Street of Alum Rock, San Jose, CA.
Through The You are Here Street Banner Project I hope the children have a strong positive experience of being active creators and curators of culture rather than passive consumers of mass culture. I also believe that it is important to engage students in art technology tools as a way to expand their computer literacy. Being exposed to the synergy of art and technology which drives Silicon Valley hopefully will excite these students on the edge of Silicon Valley to continue to pursue learning technology tools, explore art and possibly a creative career. I am also hoping that with an application process in place and banners up, students from other schools will submit student designed banners in future years. An underlying goal was to engage students in a project that really valued process, collaboration and communication in a creative forum.
Students were proud to share their knowledge of pattern design as they taught others about the radial pattern project and they learned to collaborate in creating though provoking art for their community. The school board members and the Alum Rock Education Foundation honored the project by presenting a Certificate of Appreciation at a Board meeting. The principal, Jason Sorich, was very supportive of the project and selected the fabrics to be displayed in a Visual and Performing Arts Display at the District Offices. The San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs has been supportive of the project from the beginning when I contacted them in the fall of 2010. They offered a special forum for the students to present their designs at City Hall.
At the beginning of the school year, I requested that my school district install Repper Pro and allow access to VoiceThread on school computers. The tools were easy to use. Voicethread really requires headsets as once the audio responses are playing, the room can get very noisy. I had intended to have students upload and download photos they took from either Flickr or Picassa through a link on the project website, but since the District does not allow access to these sites, I used USB memory sticks to transfer images onto and off of each computer. Luckily I had the support of students who were in the Mouse Squad program. These students helped me to transfer images before and after workshop sessions. Finally, we got a site license for Repper Pro. This was necessary as only the Pro version enables high enough resolution seamless tile saving for the textile printing. Studio Ludens, the creator of RepperPro, offers free educator site licenses if you contact them via e-mail.
How We Use It:
Using VoiceThread, students peer critiqued other students pattern creations and written explanations. Using this tool, students wrote comments or recorded their voices to share with the students of the other state. Next the Cureton Elementary students ventured out into their community to capture images using digital cameras and single use cameras. These photos were then used as source images in RepperPro software as students created digital pattern designs for their banners. In teams, students printed out their digital photos and patterns and collaged them to create 8x2 foot banners. Artist statements for the banners were written and drafted in Word for their presentation to the Alum Rock Village Business Association. They will be using a PowerPoint presentation for their banner submissions and present to the approving city board for banner design.
For the upcoming academic year, I am in the process of designing a collaborative project, Slot Shelters, which will include Cureton Elementary, and will expand our explorations of community through pattern and photography. Slot Shelters will explore the design of slot building cards and the downloadable deck of cards will grow as more schools and students participate. There will be a Google Sketch Up online collaboration and Voicethread collaboration with students internationally.
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March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
2 Chronicles 20.). We see from the narrative of the Chronicles that the children of the Korahites sang a song of praise on the occasion of that signal interposition of God, although it is not likely that the song then sang was the forty-eighth psalm; for the reference in ver. 7 is against that; and at first it is not easy to see how "ships of Tarshish" should come to be mentioned in this song, if prepared with reference to the event of which we have made mention. Ezekiel (Ezekiel 27:25, 26) makes mention of ships of Tarshish which belonged to Tyro, being "broken" by the east wind; and it is possible that the psalm may have an allusion thereto. But, singularly enough, the chapter that records Jehoshaphat's prayer and deliverance records also his defection and its punishment; and we are told that his ships were broken so that they were not able to go to Tarshish (2 Chronicles 20:35-37). If this be the reference in the song before us, its significance would be very striking; in that case, it would mean that Jehovah, Israel's God, who put the heathen to flight for Israel's sake, put even Israel to shame when her people or her kings left the straight path of reliance on and obedience to God alone; and that this was among the "judgments" of him whose right hand is full of righteousness; showing us that God's care for his Church is just as marked when he rebukes her for her sins as when he delivers her from her foes; and that both for his faithful chastisement as for his mighty interposition, his loving-kindness is rehearsed in his temple with gratitude and song. And there is a holy pride in rehearsing the privileges of Zion as far outweighing those of the nations around - a pride, however, which refers all the honour and glory of Zion to God, and to God alone. Interesting, however, as these historic allusions are to the student, the higher spiritual bearing of the psalm is far more interesting, and far more important, as it sets before us this theme - the privilege and honour of the Church of God. We need not here argue the point that the Christian Church is the successor to the honours and privileges of the Jewish Church. A comparison of Exodus 19:6 with 1 Peter 2:9 will show this. The Christian Church, in its largest sense, is made up of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. The organization of distinct and definite communities as Churches is a necessity for the time now present, but no such organizations include all believers; many believers, moreover, are in no such organization at all; only "the Lord knoweth them that are his;" and over all such his care is exercised: in their totality as including all regenerated souls, they make up the Church of God. Of this Church as a unity we have now to speak.
I. GOD'S DWELLING-PLACE IS IN HIS CHURCH, (Vers. 1, 2.) It is quite possible that, after what we have just said about the Church in its entirety and vastness, and about the impossibility of its being scanned by any human eye, that it may be said, "But if the Church is thus undefinable by us as to its limits, we cannot conceive of it as a dwelling-place." This we can easily understand. But the demur has, in reality, no force. For it is quite clear from the New Testament that as there is "the Church" in the highest spiritual sense, so there are local and organized Churches in the geographical sense. Of this the epistles to the seven Churches of Asia are immediate and sufficient proof. And wherever a Church is faithful to its Lord, since whatever is true of the whole Church is true of any part of it, the believers in Jesus who belong to any local and faithful Church may apply to themselves that which Paul declared of the Ephesian converts when he wrote, "Ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." Thus no Christian need hesitate to apply the words to the fellowship of believers to which he belongs; he may say," God is known in our palaces for a Refuge. This Church is a city of the great King. And the real presence of a living Saviour among us is our honour, our joy, our life (Matthew 18:20; Matthew 28:20).
II. GOD HIMSELF IS THE REFUGE OF THE CHURCH. (Ver. 3.) It is the privilege of the individual believer, in all times of trial, sorrow, and care, to betake himself to his God and Saviour as to an unfailing Friend. But this privilege rises to sublimity when a whole company of believers, encompassed with peril and threatened by foes from without, can all rush to their Saviour in faith and prayer, as to a Refuge from the gathering storm!
III. GOD'S LOVING-KINDNESS IS THE THEME OF THE CHURCH. (Ver. 9.) How much fuller and sweeter is this theme for meditation now than of old! Then it was gained through prophets; now from him before whose presence lawgiver and prophet retire, as stars are concealed in the brightness of the sun! How incomparably does Romans 8. surpass aught in the Old Testament! And what was there in the olden time so tender as Luke 15.? Verily such a theme lifts the soul heavenward, tunes the lips to song, and speeds the feet to run the race set before us.
IV. GOD'S DELIVERANCES MARK THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. (Vers. 4-8.) The effect of this vivid description is pictorial. We can almost see the kings eyeing Jerusalem with envy, plotting her capture, seized with panic and hurrying away as for very life. The psalmist says that he had heard of such deliverances in times past, and now had seen them. And any student of Church history who has been withal for fifty years a close observer of Church life, can say the same. That God is the perpetual Deliverer of his Church is the story of the past and the testimony of the present. Nor may we forget the double kind of deliverance:
(1) from foes without;
(2) from mischief within.
If the view given above of ver. 7 is correct, the verse suggests that the Church owes quite as much to God's chastening love in correcting her for her sins, as to his rescuing power in spoiling her foes. That he will do this is part of the covenant (Psalm 89:28-33).
V. THE HONOUR OF GOD'S NAME IS HIS OWN PLEDGE TO THE CHURCH. (Vers. 10,11.) In the attribute of God's righteousness is the Church's repose and glory. Through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, faithfulness, justice, righteousness, can be the supports of sinful men. This is the supreme wonder of redeeming grace. Think of it! Sinful people rejoicing that God's right hand is full of righteousness!
VI. GOD'S GRACIOUS RELATIONS ARE THE GUARANTEE OF THE PERPETUITY OF THE CHURCH. (Vers. 12-14.) We omit the italic "it in ver. 13 (Authorized Version), and translate the first word in ver. 14 that." The psalmist incites to a study of Zion's towers, bulwarks, palaces, privileges, that it may be declared to the generation following, that "this God is our God for ever and ever." And when we study the redemption in Christ which has founded the Church, the spiritual power which is building up the Church, the watchful providence which has for eighteen centuries guarded the Church, the story which we have to hand down to the coming generation is the same, but told with vaster emphasis, surer faith, and more rapturous joy. "This God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our Guide above death, and beyond it!" "Happy is the people that is in such a case! yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord!" - C.
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
(J. H. Jowett, M. A.)
I. CHRISTIANITY. The Rationalist regards it as a system more or less divine which must needs be measured by human reason before it can bind the consciences of men. This low and inadequate view may be Protestant as against the superstitions of the Papacy, but it is not evangelical, inasmuch as it denies the infallibility of Scripture, the vicarious atonement of our Lord and its related doctrines. But Christianity is the complete revelation of the Divine will in the Scriptures. It is Christ revealing Himself to the human consciousness.
II. THE CHURCH is one in historical transmission; and it is catholic, including all who fear God. Ecclesiastical arrangements are not of its essence, and do not interfere with its real unity, which is that of the Spirit. Rome has been fighting on a thousand battlefields to compel an external unity, but human nature will never submit to it. Such unity is but a dream, an ecclesiastical device.
III. RELIGION. This is to some —
1. An intellectual conception only. To others —
2. Feeling, rapture. To others —
3. A devout performance on the Lord's day. But —
4. To the evangelist it is faith and holiness.
(Elbert S. Porter, D. D.)
1. What is to be understood by the preservation and protection of the Church, so as we may look neither for less nor more than what we are like to meet with?
2. What is meant by searching into, and considering of, these causes and means of the Church's preservation? "Walk about Zion, tell her towers, set your heart to her bulwarks, consider her palaces," etc.
3. What are those causes and means of the Church's preservation, those towers and bulwarks which will not fail, whenever Zerah or Sennacherib comes, or whatever attempts are made upon Zion?
4. What reason is there why we should thus search into and consider these causes of the Church's preservation and protection?
5. What is the testimony which we have to give concerning this matter to the ensuing generation? "That ye may declare it to the generation to come."
( J. Owen, D. D.)
I. THE NATURAL ADVANTAGES OF OUR SITUATION.
1. Our soil is fertile, liberally rewarding the husbandman with "grass for cattle, and herb for the use of man"; with all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life.
2. No country in the world is more sufficient for itself, or more independent of every other; while from innumerable ports we disperse our superfluities and the fruits of our industry to every nation under heaven.
3. Our climate is mild, temperate and salubrious. We are neither scorched by excess of heat, nor made torpid by intense cold.
4. Our people are hardy and vigorous; patient of toil; docile, generous and open; attached to their country; intrepid in war, industrious at home.
II. THE EXCELLENCE OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
1. Ye have personal liberty, which, as it cannot be taken from you without a crime, so neither can ye alienate it of yourselves but for a time, and upon such terms as still keep you under the protection of the laws, to guard you from abuse, and to secure your hire.
2. Ye have political liberty. Every man is allowed to declare his sentiments concerning the measures of government, and to animadvert on them in the most public manner.
3. Ye have religious liberty in a very eminent degree. Every man is allowed to hold his own creed, and to worship God in his own way.
III. THE FAVOUR OF PROVIDENCE.
(J. Adamson, D. D.)I. THE CHURCH OF GOD IS OUR BIRTHPLACE. Angels said, "This man was born there."
II. THE CENTRE OF OUR CHIEF SOCIAL ATTRACTIONS. Are not our grandest associations connected with the house of God? These are the men that are to stand by us in times of trouble. These are they who are to counsel us when we go astray. These are the men who are to carry us out to our last slumber when we have done with our earthly toil. Oh! I want to be surrounded by church friends, some to counsel me, some to encourage me, some to cheer me and strengthen me. I want to sit with them, and sing with them, and pray with them, and die with them.
III. THE HOME OF OUR CHILDREN.
IV. A REFUGE. Seafaring men do not always expect smooth sailing. Neither ought we on the sea of life always expect to have smooth sailing. You have not always had it the way you wanted it in the past. You will not always have it the way you want it in the future. But when trouble came you went into the house of God and found it a refuge. You had your troubles explained to you.
V. OUR MONUMENT. It seems a very silly thing to expend one or two or three thousand dollars on a tombstone. But that which you do for the Church of God is your eternal monument. It is a living memento.
VI. The GATE OF HEAVEN.
(T. De Witt Talmage.)
Homiletic Review.I. HER TOWERS. These naturally represent the great truths that are lifted into prominence. There are some ten great truths curiously related and parts of one system. Five of them are like corner towers — the Being of God is central to all — then the doctrine of the Son, the Spirit, Man, and the Word of God. The intermediate connecting truths are the Mediation of Christ in Atonement, the Mediation of the Spirit in Regeneration, Justification by Faith, the Inspiration of the sacred writers, and the right of private study of Scripture. No one of these truths can be sacrificed without weakening the whole structure.
II. Her BULWARKS. These as naturally represent the great barriers or defences of the Church, which act as restraints against wickedness and worldliness, serving both to keep in disciples and keep out evildoers. The Church has certain separating barriers which define her province and life, and restraining barriers which repel and restrain evil. No small part of the service of the Church in the world is found in the resistance to evil. What the dykes are to Holland the Church is to the community: it keeps out the flood of evil.
III. Her PALACES. These suggest beauty, honour, delight, privilege, and may stand for all the privileges of the children of God.
1. Worship, with all the ordinances, sacraments, prayer, praise, etc.
2. Fellowship, both with God and saints.
3. Holy living and growing both in knowledge and grace.
4. Service to God and man.
I. THE IMPORTANCE TO BE ATTACHED TO THE TOWERS AND BULWARKS OF ZION, AND THE DUTY OF ALL TO HELP IN MAINTAINING THEM. The world is spared for the sake of the Church to be redeemed out of it, and the Church is to aid in gathering together the souls that shall be saved. How much, then, does the world owe to the Church, for it is only for her sake that it is preserved. As the Canaanites were for Israel, who should inherit their land.
II. ALL PEOPLE IN A CHRISTIAN LAND, WHATEVER THEIR POSITION, ARE UNDER STRICT OBLIGATION TO AID IN TEE BUILDING OF ZION, Now, this duty is binding, not on private individuals only, but on men in their official capacities as kings, rulers and having authority. It would be strange if those who, by their position, could do most for this work, were free from obligation to do anything. All past history, as given in Scripture, contradicts those who would have no connection between the Church and the State. For kings and governments have helped the Church, have been commanded to do so, and been blessed for that which they have done. Then, "my soul, come not thou into their secret." Who would separate what God has joined?
Mark well her bulwarks; consider ye her palaces.
I. BULWARKS SYMBOLIZE POWER AND STRENGTH. I fail to discern any of the marks of decay and weakness with which the Church of God in our day is charged. Her towers are growing stronger, her glory more resplendent, her foes decrease, and her friends become more numerous. Some of the manifest emblems of power are —
1. Christian civilization. The very air men breathe is charged through and through with Christian thought.
2. The Bible, for it is a great source of power. One of the surest proofs of its power is the virulence of its enemies. Men would not attack a book which is a dead letter.
3. The vast accumulation of wealth, and the number of churches. These are signs of power. The value of Church property in our land is unparalleled, and increases greatly every year. There is not a single heathen temple in process of erection in the world. The Church gives hundreds of thousands a year for mission world. Her light flashes away up in frozen Greenland, in Central Africa and in Polynesia. Christ will be universal King.
II. RICHES AND GLORY ARE INDICATED BY THE PALACES OF ZION.
1. There is the palace of assurance — the doctrine of the witness of the Spirit. These need no witness of guilt — of that men are conscious. When pardon comes we have the witness of the Spirit that we are taken into the family of God.
2. The palace of Christian fellowship.
3. That of Divine communion. Zion with her towers, her bulwarks, her palaces, is the joy of the whole earth. Now she is the Church militant, but shall be soon the Church triumphant.
(J. H. Bayliss, D. D.)
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Today is September 19, 2017. According to David Meade, a Christian numerologist, the earth will be destroyed in just four days on September 23, 2017. He asserts that another planet (one NASA debunked back in 2012 – “Planet X”) will collide with Earth. Despite NASA calling it “another internet hoax,” Mr. Meade isn’t backing down; in fact, he claims to have utilized a special “Scripture Code” to arrive at his conclusion.
Now, this isn’t the first time the world was supposed to end, and it likely won’t be the last. It makes sense to want this from a Christian perspective in terms of understanding this is not our home and desiring to be in the place that is. Christians have been longing for this since Christ was crucified, in fact, many early believers sold all their possessions and left their jobs because they thought His return was going to happen almost immediately after He left.
“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.” – Hebrews 13:14
What makes predictions like this smack of arrogance toward the Lord is His own Word. Jesus told His disciples no one would know the day or even the hour He would return, not even Himself, outside of the Father. For anyone to claim they’ve used some new method to figure out when Jesus will return is to call Him a liar, which, if He were, would render the Bible useless. Mr. Meade may have good intentions, but as the old saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” – Matthew 24:35-44
The Bible does talk about many signs that will point to Jesus’ return being imminent. As a matter of fact, there are so many, I will refrain from listing them all so as keep my writing concise. However, I will provide this link to a well known, respected Biblical reference website that can shed some light on the topic. Instead of totally taking my word for it, go to the Word and pray for wisdom.
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It’s almost that time, where the goblins and ghouls come out to wreak havoc on unsuspecting trick or treaters. This brings me back to the better days. The days when your parents helped you get dressed in your costume, gave you a sack, a bucket, whatever vessel it was, to hold your candy, and off you went. You met up with friends and took the neighborhood by storm. A time when Mom & Dad didn’t have to worry where you were after sunset. You knew what time you had to be in or in my case; my Dad’s two-finger whistle alerted the whole neighborhood it was time to come home. We all flocked to Mrs. S’s house because she had caramel apples and no one ever thought about a razor blade inside. Try that today…
Times have changed so drastically. We are in post 9/11 mode on a constant daily basis. We think twice before the children go out to play. Where are they going? Are the other parents home? Have we gone over the “rules” enough that they remember? Today, play dates & house parties are the norm. Children are dropped off at a friend’s, with a specific time to be picked up. Less worry for concerned parents.
Halloween used to be one of my favorite holidays. Used to be. No longer can we trust that our children’s safety is not at risk. No longer can we allow our children to eat their candy without first checking the packaging. This takes away from the fun of going door to door and passing the word about who has the best candy. From hearing all the other adults ooh and ahh over the little three year old dressed like Cinderella. From being a kid.
Sadly, we’re lucky if we get two dozen trick or treaters at our house. Years ago, we had hundreds.
So, remember, on this Halloween, please drive safely. Watch out for little ones, whose parents took the time to take them out and give them the experience we all had and yes, even the teenagers who are roaming the streets after dark.
Have a Safe & Happy Halloween.
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The Ubuntu Ireland IRC meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Tuesday 10th November 2009, on #ubuntu-ie on FreeNode.
MootBot was used for keeping minutes and logs of the meeting, and MootBot isn't set to Irish Time, so the times look 'wrong'
Ubuntu Ireland twitter/identica account
Post release party debrief
UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
Having other types of events
try and get the loco out of Dublin, an event somewhere else
Meeting started by ebel at 14:09 14:15:41 Topic: Ubuntu Ireland twitter/identica account 14:16:25 LINK ebel http://identi.ca/ubuntuie 14:16:31 LINK ebel https://twitter.com/ubuntuie 14:25:31 LINK ebel http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=5771419554&ref=ts 14:34:51 Topic: Post release party debrief 14:36:14 LINK ebel http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/359447 some photos from czajkowski 14:36:25 LINK ebel http://pix.ie/czajkowski/1319568/in/album/359447 a very nice group shot of people who were there 14:46:15 Topic: Having other types of events 14:54:34 LINK tdr112 http://www.charlestownonice.ie/ 15:03:05 ACTION ebel tdr112 will investigate ice skating 15:04:17 Topic: UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit 15:06:34 Topic: try and get the loco out of Dublin, an event somewhere else 15:33:16 LINK ebel http://doodle.com/ a great easy site for organing schedules / polls etc 15:35:53 ACTION ebel ebel will look into some merchandice for an event Meeting ended at 15:40. People Present: 1. ebel 2. fagan 3. daithif 4. airurando 5. slashtom 6. tdr112 7. lau1 8. terran 9. davem
Started logging meeting in #ubuntu-ie [14:10:25] <ebel> I'm ebel and I'll be chairing this meetingf [14:10:37] <ebel> For the record, the wiki page for this meeting is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IRCMeetings/2009-11-10 [14:11:15] <ebel> Before every meeting we put up a wiki page like that that lists the agenda etc. [14:11:19] <ebel> everyone can put stuff on it. [14:11:38] <ebel> we're also using MootBot, which makes taking the minutes and logs nice and easy [14:11:54] <ebel> however it's in a strange timezone, so that's why it thinks it's 14:09ish now. [14:11:59] * fagan forgot about the meeting [14:12:18] <ebel> Please say PRESENT if you are here for the meeting and paying attention. [14:12:20] <ebel> PRESENT [14:12:28] <fagan> PRESENT [14:12:29] <daithif> PRESENT [14:12:31] <airurando> PRESENT [14:12:33] <slashtom> PRESENT [14:12:46] <fagan> czajkowski wake up :) [14:12:58] <ebel> IIRC czajkowski is on a phone call at the mo [14:13:06] <fagan> oh cool [14:13:10] <ebel> ;) [14:13:20] <ebel> I think tdr112 will be along in a little bit [14:13:22] <fagan> lets push on [14:13:54] <tdr112> PRESENT [14:14:32] <ebel> :) [14:14:51] <ebel> well initially tdr112 was gonna be goign first [14:15:00] <ebel> but he asked to change it around [14:15:08] <ebel> tdr112: do you wanna go now? do you have time? [14:15:23] <tdr112> go with you first ebel [14:15:41] <ebel> [topic] Ubuntu Ireland twitter/identica account [14:15:57] <fagan> +1 blind :) [14:16:04] <ebel> Just for the record I have set up an twitter and identica account for ubuntu ireland [14:16:09] <ebel> as another form of communication [14:16:15] <fagan> url? [14:16:22] <ebel> https://twitter.com/ubuntuie and http://identi.ca/ubuntuie [14:16:25] <ebel> [link] http://identi.ca/ubuntuie [14:16:27] <fagan> (please) [14:16:31] <ebel> [link] https://twitter.com/ubuntuie [14:17:13] * fagan follows [14:17:30] <ebel> Expect updates on that account [14:17:45] <ebel> myself, czajkowski, tdr112 and Mean-Machine have the power to update it at the moment [14:18:06] <ebel> soon we'll set up a twitter list thing to follow ubuntu ie members [14:18:24] * fagan was just going to suggest that [14:18:50] <ebel> oh wait i started setting that up https://twitter.com/ubuntuie/members [14:19:33] <ebel> but y'know we need more followers. [14:19:59] <ebel> any questions about it? [14:20:08] <fagan> I just followed both [14:20:11] <tdr112> what are we going to use it for [14:20:28] <ebel> tdr112: another form of communication for people who use twitter?P [14:20:46] <fagan> tdr112: we can update it with post from ubuntu-ie planet [14:20:54] <ebel> we have this channel, regular meetups, website and the mailing list used regularly [14:21:09] <ebel> there's also a web forum, we should use that more [14:21:37] <ebel> when applying to be an approved ubuntu loco we mentioned about spreading our communication [14:22:03] <tdr112> i would not like to see it become our main source of communication [14:22:26] <fagan> tdr112: thats not going to happen [14:22:29] <ebel> tdr112: I agree. [14:22:37] <fagan> No one wants that [14:23:08] <tdr112> also i would like to see it not being over used [14:23:13] <ebel> it should also be always publically visible without a twitter account, (i.e.: none of this 'protected tweets' thing), in my opinion [14:23:15] <tdr112> *not [14:23:45] <ebel> well twitter is usually updated more than once per day. :P [14:23:47] <tdr112> ebel: it should be open to be viewed by all [14:24:33] <ebel> tdr112: I agree. I think having it closed goes against how we've done things before and would be a step back [14:25:09] <ebel> but there are people who use twitter. [14:25:27] <ebel> that reminds me, someone (i dunno who) set up a facebook group [14:25:31] <ebel> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=5771419554&ref=ts [14:25:33] <airurando> Could the twitter (and identi.ca) bio be expanded upon. Perhaps to encourage participation in ununtu-ie? [14:26:20] <ebel> airurando: oh? got a suggestion? I'll put it in there... [14:28:49] <airurando> Ubuntu-ie LoCo Team. All users of Ubuntu and open source Software welcome to join (or something along those lines). [14:29:17] <fagan> there is a bebo thing too [14:29:46] <fagan> I have to go ill be on in 10 [14:30:36] <ebel> anything else about twitter/dent? [14:31:06] <tdr112> noting sould be put on it that does not go out on the web site or mail list [14:31:21] <tdr112> i.e for users who dont like twitter [14:31:50] <ebel> well we'll never get full coverage. Not everything on this irc channel goes onto website and/or mailing list [14:32:02] <ebel> but yes, important things [14:32:16] <ebel> i think [14:32:21] <tdr112> good [14:33:35] <ebel> airurando: that sounds like a good bio. i'll put that up [14:33:55] <ebel> i think there's a space limit, dunno what it is, if it fits, it'll go up [14:34:22] <ebel> ok [14:34:30] <ebel> nothing else? [14:34:51] <ebel> [topic] Post release party debrief [14:35:33] <ebel> we had a release party 31st october [14:35:42] <ebel> for the new ubuntu release, karmic koala. [14:35:59] <ebel> we went to jimmy chungs for lunch, then went to the karma bar [14:36:04] <ebel> there was a very good turn out [14:36:08] <slashtom> thank you to cztab for her work, it was great craic [14:36:14] <ebel> http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/359447 some photos from czajkowski [14:36:25] <ebel> http://pix.ie/czajkowski/1319568/in/album/359447 a very nice group shot of people who were there [14:36:37] <ebel> big thanks to everyone who turned out, it's great to have a good crowd. [14:36:48] <tdr112> i have a question about the time of the event [14:36:55] <ebel> oh? [14:36:56] <tdr112> was it too early [14:37:15] <tdr112> what do people think [14:37:24] <slashtom> perfect timing for lunch [14:37:29] <ebel> (for the record we met up at jimmy chungs at 1pm - 1:30pm and were at karma for about 4pm) [14:37:56] <ebel> it was good for lunch time [14:37:58] <slashtom> being halloween, we didn't want to schedule for evening [14:38:05] <ebel> although people were dripping in until about 1:30 or 2ish [14:38:12] <lau1> fine for me had friends at dinner [14:38:24] <ebel> most were there by about 1:30 [14:38:48] <slashtom> normally i think evening would be better, however it did go well [14:38:53] <lau1> PRESENT [14:39:00] <ebel> 'ello lau1 :P [14:39:06] <tdr112> i just think it was a long day in the pub [14:39:08] <lau1> bit late [14:39:29] <slashtom> tdr112 we did stay late [14:39:29] <ebel> yeah it was good for lunch time [14:39:33] <slashtom> yes, i agree [14:39:43] <ebel> i suppose it did drag into a long evening in the pub... [14:39:51] <ebel> twas a bit early to be hitting the pub IMO [14:40:08] <slashtom> especially as the pub was closed [14:40:19] <airurando> It was a long day but I was glad that a good group of you were still there when I got off work that evening [14:40:20] <ebel> yes, they had to open the pub for us ;) [14:40:38] <ebel> yeah airurando didn't show up till about 6 or 7ish [14:40:44] <lau1> I like an opening :) [14:41:01] <airurando> 7:15:-[ [14:41:46] <ebel> i suppose people have the habit of going for a drink afterwards [14:41:55] <ebel> and it was nice to have variety [14:42:01] <slashtom> tbh, i do prefer events to start in the evening (except for geeknics) [14:42:17] <ebel> go for lunch instead of just another pub meet. [14:42:19] <slashtom> true [14:42:27] <slashtom> but we could do dinner then pub [14:42:34] <tdr112> i would think it would be nice to go for dinner (5pm) then drinks [14:42:58] <slashtom> given that it was halloween and people had plans, lunch was probably the best plan [14:43:42] <tdr112> your right slashtom as it was halloween it was good to have it early [14:44:48] <ebel> yeah 5pm dinner would prevent it from dragging into 8 hours in the pub type event [14:45:20] <tdr112> and would not run out of stuff to talk about [14:45:55] <tdr112> a few drinks in ebel and he is all talk :P [14:46:02] <slashtom> lol [14:46:04] <ebel> which sorta brings us to your point tdr112 [14:46:15] <ebel> [topic] Having other types of events [14:46:51] <tdr112> I would like to see other stuff than just pub events [14:47:12] <ebel> sounds good [14:47:13] <slashtom> wrong time of year for geeknics, so any other suggests? [14:47:22] <slashtom> suggestions* [14:47:32] <tdr112> someone said a table quiz , [14:47:36] <ebel> aye winter is upon us, no more picnics for a while.. [14:47:41] <lau1> freeznik ;) [14:47:57] <ebel> it would be fun to have another local bug jam [14:48:24] <tdr112> another bug jam would need a lot of work [14:49:00] <ebel> table quiz could be fun, but they're mostly in pubs :P [14:49:00] <lau1> enough irish speakers for a translation jam ? [14:49:30] <tdr112> after going to the last two , without any what out any structure in place a bug jam is kind of a waste of time [14:49:40] <airurando> introduction/help for new users ? [14:50:11] <ebel> tdr112: yeah you gotta be careful with bug jams... [14:50:23] <tdr112> yep , people need help to know what to do , at the moment you just turn up and thats it [14:51:01] <slashtom> how about something non-tech, visit somewhere... be tourists in your own city [14:51:08] <slashtom> as a group [14:51:30] <lau1> dressed as penguins ;) [14:51:31] <slashtom> social visit to a museum or something of interest? [14:51:36] <airurando> sessions where people can learn would be popular I think. [14:51:44] <ebel> or something even a bit techy, science-y [14:51:55] <ebel> or even going to the cinema, then some food after [14:52:11] <tdr112> these are all great ideas [14:52:24] <airurando> iceskating [14:52:34] <slashtom> could work [14:52:44] <ebel> oh nice [14:52:47] * tdr112 likes iceskating [14:53:07] <ebel> me too :)P [14:53:17] <ebel> right so we need to go iceskating :) [14:53:56] <slashtom> followed by food [14:53:57] <ebel> hasn't started yet has it? [14:54:03] <ebel> (the ice skating?) [14:54:03] <lau1> I don't have knees left for that :'( [14:54:22] <airurando> don't think so [14:54:33] <lau1> december no ? [14:54:34] <tdr112> http://www.charlestownonice.ie/ [14:54:42] <tdr112> its open all the time [14:54:46] <ebel> oh [14:55:40] <ebel> nice [14:55:41] <ebel> :) [14:56:00] <lau1> I might put my kneebraces and have a go anyway [14:56:36] <ebel> :) [14:56:40] <ebel> right we'll have to do that then [14:58:16] <ebel> does anyone wanna organise any event? pub quiz? cinema? ice skating? etc? [14:58:30] <tdr112> everyone hides [14:58:40] <ebel> :P [14:58:59] <ebel> always the way :0 [14:59:10] <ebel> tdr112: that ice rink is up near where you hail from, right? [14:59:24] <ebel> wanna find out the prices / how to get there from town / when it's open? [14:59:53] <tdr112> ok i will get all the intel and put it on the mail list [14:59:54] <ebel> then send an email to the list about it, see if people wanna go, use something like doodle to select a saturday, etc [15:00:02] <airurando> should you not look for opinion via one of those online poles you do first. Get the wider community discussing it first to maximise attendance. [15:00:23] <airurando> sorry ebel [15:00:33] <ebel> airurando: good idea. [15:00:52] <ebel> there's nothing special about 'ubuntu events' [15:01:15] <ebel> it's just a pile of people with common interest and respecting the code of coduct, and doing something together [15:03:05] <ebel> [action] tdr112 will investigate ice skating [15:04:17] <ebel> [topic] UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit [15:04:36] <ebel> this is just a reminder that the ubuntu developer summit is on soon in america [15:05:02] <ebel> both czajkowski and fagan got sponsored by canonical to fly to dallas and go to it [15:05:30] <ebel> hope they have a good time, learn a lot, and spread the word of our loco [15:05:38] <ebel> etc :) [15:05:48] <tdr112> good luck to both of them [15:05:53] <slashtom> yep, hope it goes well! [15:06:00] <airurando> ditto [15:06:27] <ebel> :) [15:06:34] <ebel> [topic] try and get the loco out of Dublin, an event somewhere else [15:06:39] <ebel> suggested by tdr112 [15:07:05] <tdr112> ok it looks to me that this is a dublin loco and not an ireland loco [15:08:18] <tdr112> i way to get more people into ubuntu out side dublin is by trying to have an event oudside dublin [15:08:30] * ebel nods [15:08:40] <lau1> Well who is outside Co.dublin ? [15:08:54] <ebel> fagan is in carlow IIRC, but he's offline at the mo [15:09:06] <ebel> i remember someone from galway popping up... [15:09:14] <airurando> airurando is in Co Kildare [15:09:15] <lau1> It might be better to start where we have someone on the grounf [15:09:15] <slashtom> what about involving the computer societies at limerick and elsewhere? [15:09:18] <ebel> czajkowski might know some limerick people [15:09:49] <lau1> quan on parle du loup ;) [15:10:17] <ebel> fagan: we were just suggesting having non-dublin events [15:10:17] <terran> You'd get a good crowd in Limerick [15:10:19] <terran> almost all of Skynet are Ubuntu users [15:10:32] <fagan> ebel: +1 [15:10:38] <ebel> Well someone could start off small. Just call a PotD. meet up in a pub, just talk to new people who turn up [15:10:49] <ebel> terran: your from limerick, right? [15:11:00] <terran> ebel: yes, living in Galway now though [15:11:03] <tdr112> the loco should try and help people start these [15:11:31] <slashtom> how about one in Galway? [15:11:45] <airurando> Important for the Dublin based group to participate initially in such events. [15:11:58] <ebel> a road trip? [15:12:00] <ebel> :) [15:12:10] <ebel> yeah I agree the loco should help. [15:12:22] <terran> NUIG has a computer society but I'm not involved in it yet [15:12:55] <slashtom> it's a good place to start [15:12:56] <tdr112> airurando: yep help make up the numbers at one or two events to try and get them going [15:13:10] <ebel> how can the loco help? [15:13:37] <airurando> terran: do you know if ubuntu is widely used by students in NUIG? [15:13:46] <slashtom> creating groups in other cities, then coming together for events could be one way to make it a 'Irish' loco [15:14:03] <lau1> yep [15:14:04] <ebel> it can be a bit scary if it's just you running an event and you're sitting in a pub alone waiting for randomers to come up and say hi [15:14:08] <terran> airurando: I don't. I would imagine it wouldn't have the same presence as it does in Limerick [15:14:15] <terran> I think Limerick is the best bet for an event outside of Dublin [15:14:19] <airurando> tdr112: exactly 'critical mass' [15:14:38] <ebel> yeah, but even if there's 4 of you chatting, then you've made 3 new friends [15:15:05] <tdr112> the more people that are at an event the more likey people will turn up [15:15:24] <fagan> And if they are local you could have regular meetups [15:15:38] <ebel> yeah [15:15:49] <airurando> terran: no pressure but could you contact the computer soc and get their views on having an Ubuntu event? [15:15:49] <ebel> all you need is regular meet ups, and hey presto you're a community [15:16:09] <terran> airurando: in NUIG or UL? [15:16:39] <airurando> terran: I agree with the suggestion that limerick would be a good place to start. [15:16:42] <fagan> the computer soc in Carlow IT consists of people who dont use free software they are all games development nerds [15:16:59] <terran> fagan: as far as I've been told, NUIG compsoc is the same [15:17:02] <terran> more of a gaming soc [15:17:05] <fagan> But if we wanted to have a talk or something my college would probably do it [15:17:19] <tdr112> a compsoc is a great place to start but we want other people too [15:17:22] <fagan> Im fairly bad at talks though [15:17:36] <ebel> yeah [15:17:49] <fagan> tdr112: maybe we could just start a LUG in the colleges [15:17:57] <fagan> Even if its small it would be kinda cool [15:18:05] <terran> airurando: I'll sort something with skynet, they'd be well up for it, it might get some of the new younger members more involved in the wider commnity [15:18:09] <terran> *community [15:18:15] <fagan> I know I could get like 5 members in my college [15:18:53] <ebel> fagan: so you could have a meet up, even a pub meet, or lunch or caf� meet in your college? [15:19:02] <ebel> even if there's 5 people there, that's a win [15:19:22] <airurando> terran: maybe even get so guys from Galway down to limerick for the first one? [15:19:30] <terran> yeah [15:19:31] <fagan> I dont know anybody myself but I do know some of the international students use ubuntu [15:19:35] <terran> we've done that before [15:19:49] <fagan> I saw a few ubuntu stickers about [15:20:09] <tdr112> fagan: put up a poster [15:20:13] <ebel> fagan: put up a few signs, post to boards.ie, local web forum, mailing list etc :0 [15:20:21] <ebel> colleges are normally fine with putting up posters. [15:20:32] <terran> I just mentioned the idea in skynet's IRC channel and the vibes are good [15:20:48] <ebel> terran: they can come in here! :) [15:20:57] <lau1> drive to limerick then ;) [15:21:10] <terran> ebel: a good few of them are! [15:21:10] <ebel> let's get this ball rolling. skynet seem like a compsoc with their heads screwed on [15:21:57] <slashtom> has skynet got a point of contact? [15:22:06] <terran> slashtom: well there's loads of us in here [15:22:08] <terran> in fact [15:22:13] <terran> davem is in here I believe [15:22:21] <terran> and he's the current Skynet president [15:22:38] <slashtom> perfect [15:22:38] <terran> and there's me, I'm intersocs officer [15:22:49] <terran> and czajkowski is ex-president [15:22:52] <airurando> czajkowski would want to be involved in this discussion. [15:23:21] <ebel> nice :) [15:24:13] <fagan> is the meeting over yet? [15:24:20] <terran> what time should this event take place, and should it just be drinks or what? [15:24:25] <terran> or a talk and drinks? [15:24:35] <ebel> terran: *shrug* it's up to who ever wants to organise it, i suppose [15:25:33] <terran> Okay right now I'm thinking talk with some Ubuntu merchandise to hand out followed by drinks and finger food in one of the campus Bars [15:26:12] <airurando> I think a talk would be important to introduce the guys to ubuntu-ie. [15:26:31] <airurando> terran: I totally agree with your suggestion. [15:26:36] <ebel> terran: nice :) [15:26:44] <ebel> we might be able to get some merchandice [15:26:57] <tdr112> terran: what day would you be thinking of having it [15:26:58] <ebel> i think czajkowski has applied for a pack for karmic [15:27:16] <tdr112> midweek or the weekend ? [15:27:19] <ebel> since dublin has an established community, we should donate this gear to the non-dublin peeps [15:27:33] <davem> terran: who wants me? -_- [15:27:59] <terran> tdr112: well, midweek would probably suit people that are actually in UL, weekend would suit me, and possibly Dublin people [15:28:02] <tdr112> and we had the last pack [15:28:21] <ebel> davem: we're talking about having an ubuntu-ie event outside dublin and limerick / skynet was suggested [15:28:30] <terran> davem: we're discussing the possibility of a skynet-backed Ubuntu-ie event in Limerick [15:28:37] <slashtom> the event should be posted to the usual ubuntu-ie places, hopefully get a few people brought in from elsewhere including from dublin [15:30:28] <terran> I think Thursday night if we're to have it during the week, Saturday night if a weekend [15:31:00] <terran> Next thing is, should it be before Christmas? Or in Jan? [15:31:20] <fagan> Crimbo isnt a good time for most people [15:31:28] <tdr112> terran: are you exams before or after xmas [15:31:49] * fagan gets no crimbo exams :D [15:31:56] <terran> tdr112: UL and NUIG are both before Christmas [15:32:24] <ebel> sounds like postxmas makes more sense then [15:32:35] <ebel> IIRC most of UCD is exams before xmas [15:32:47] <tdr112> mine are after :( [15:32:48] <slashtom> doodle! [15:33:16] <ebel> http://doodle.com/ a great easy site for organing schedules / polls etc [15:33:17] <terran> Yeah I think early-mid Jan [15:33:38] <tdr112> sounds good [15:33:38] <airurando> These topics of alternative meetups in Dublin and meetups across the country have generated a great response. Should there be an extra IRC session to discuss ideas further? [15:34:00] <terran> Yes [15:34:02] <ebel> yeah [15:34:22] <ebel> I'd like to see country wide events become just another kind of event we run [15:34:34] <ebel> and just as regular as our current dublin based events [15:35:32] <terran> I would also like this [15:35:42] <ebel> i'll look into getting some merchandice [15:35:49] <terran> and I'd like to make it to some of the Dublin based ones at some point :p [15:35:53] <ebel> [action] ebel will look into some merchandice for an event [15:36:00] <terran> Try not having them on Halloween :) [15:36:13] <airurando> thanks to tdr112 for tabling the topics:-D [15:36:31] <tdr112> no prob [15:36:33] <ebel> terran: do you wanna be the 'go to person' for this idea? [15:36:50] <terran> ebel: the Limerick event idea? Absolutely [15:36:59] <ebel> nice [15:37:11] <ebel> how are you at organising it, considering you're in galway... [15:38:09] <terran> Won't be a problem, I'm in constant contact with the skynet committee and used to organising events all over the place for intersocs [15:38:17] <ebel> we'll include this in the next meeting. [15:38:22] <airurando> good start:) [15:38:35] <ebel> yeah [15:39:08] <ebel> that's all on the agenda [15:39:14] <ebel> any other business? [15:39:49] <fagan> nope [15:39:54] * fagan needs tea [15:40:02] <ebel> nope [15:40:31] <ebel> cool that's it [15:40:31] <ebel> #endmeeting Meeting ended.
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The chances are that you don’t tend to give a lot of thought to your skin. Aside from slapping on a bit of moisturizer or sunscreen, we don’t tend to give a lot of consideration to the amazing nature of our own skin. There are some amazing and incredible facts about your skin that you should know. If you’ve never considered just how interesting your skin is, here are some amazing facts that might make you look at yourself and the people around you in a whole new way. Furthermore, you can also check city beauty for more beauty tips.
1. It’s the largest organ in the body
Not only does your skin make up around 16% of your body weight, but it also covers approximately 1.73 square meters!
2. Pressure Sensors
There are four main receptors in your skin, and they all respond to different types of pressure. From a light touch that is registered by the Meissner receptors to the vibration and pressure sensing Pacinian sensors, your skin is very susceptible to touch.
3. Vitamin C and Skincare
There are many supplements that can improve the look and feel of your skin, but Vitamin C is by far the best. When you look at the 6 Important Roles of Vitamin C, then skincare is right up there.
4: Body Temperature
Your skin helps a lot when it comes to keeping your body temperature regulated. Essentially, the skin is the body’s version of a thermostat. That’s why we sweat in the heat, and our skin gets tighter in the cold.
This is the pigment that dictates the color of your skin. While everyone has the same number of cells to produce melanin, not everyone produces similar amounts. The more melanin your body produces, then the darker your skin!
6. Skin and regeneration
Did you know that your skin regenerates itself? Approximately every 28 days, you have an entirely new layer of skin, as your body naturally sheds dead skin cells every day. It even happens while you’re asleep!
7. Dust is literally skin
Dust gets everywhere, and while a lot of it is made up of dirt, sand, and insect waste, a large part of it is made up of dead skin cells. Remember that next time you’re vacuuming.
8. Your skin is someone’s home
There are millions of bacteria on your skin! Don’t panic; it doesn’t mean that you need an immediate bath. These bacteria are harmless, and your skin microbiota can even help your immune cells to fight microbes that can cause diseases.
9. Skin is a health indicator
If you have changes in your skin, then it could be a sign of a health issue. If you suddenly develop a rash or itching, then you might have a fungal skin infection or even an autoimmune disease. If your skin changes for any reason, then make sure that you get your skin doctor to have a look, try Cureskin App.”
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(2018) Horror (Hard Floor) Bill Moseley, Matthew Nadu, Daniel Wyland, Ashley C Williams, Clint Howard, Kenneth McGregor, Keith Stallworth, Lisa Wilcox, Deltra Leak, Holly Zuelle, Meghan Strange, Shaun Paul Costello, Michelle Romano, Vito LoGrasso, Victoria Gates, Scott Lehman, Jack Hoffman, Michael Connolly, Marcia C. Myers, Marie A. Garton, Belinda M. Wlson. Directed by Dom Frank
We tend to have a bit of a fixation on religion and the paranormal. From The Exorcist on down, we stand in awe of cathedrals and the rites of the church. Some churches though are less holy places than others.
The First Corinthians Baptist Church in downtown Philadelphia was once a magnificent edifice, a tribute to the glory of God. Of late it has fallen on hard times however. The membership has dwindled as the neighborhood has become less affluent and nearby mega-churches has enticed others away. Pastor James (Moseley) whose family has been at the church for generations is at a crossroads; gentrification is beginning to creep into the neighborhood and developers want the valuable property to tear down the aging and decrepit church and put in a new multi-use facility; they’re even willing to build a brand spanking new mega-church for the pastor to preach in, much to the delight of his ambitious wife Loretta (Romano).
The pastor is reluctant to give up on the building that is in many ways his family’s legacy but the developer in the person of Ronald Lawson (Nadu) is persuasive and at last the pastor gives in. However the subject has to be approved by the church’s various boards and with Loretta working diligently behind the scenes, the measure squeaks by.
When Lawson comes to the church several nights later for the signing of the papers that will mean the end of the grand old lady, he brings with him the secretary he’s having an affair with (Williams), the Romanian financier that is his partner (Wyland), a local community leader who has also partnered with him (Stallworth) and his bodyguard (LoGrasso). Pastor James has with him his wife, the head of the board of Deacons (McGregor), the church secretary (Wilcox) and a board member (Zuelle). It’s literally a dark and stormy night but all who are in the church don’t realize that the building is not at all happy at the prospect of being torn down and isn’t going to let them go to carry out the deed.
First of all, the First Corinthians Baptist Church is a real one and it is absolutely a beautiful building. It is the perfect location for this kind of a movie; nearly 200 years old and full of the kind of architectural detail that modern churches last. It feels like a place of worship which makes the haunted goings-on therein all the more shocking. Kudos to Frank for taking full advantage of his location filming.
There aren’t a lot of digital effects here and the production could have sorely used them but one can’t get picky when you’re on a budget. The big problem is the script is a bit inconsistent; various characters are “taken” by the church to be pulled into a purgatory-like dimension in a puff of black smoke. Some of them seem to burn (at least there are flames superimposed on the actors) while others don’t. We don’t get enough backstory to the various characters to understand why some get the flames and others don’t. As to why this is happening, there really isn’t much of an explanation; the Romanian mutters about old Romanian myths about holy places that sit in judgment of those who are evil but again, everybody seems to be victimized without a lot of rhyme or reason other than maybe being part of the plan to knock down the building.
The acting is a bit on the wooden side for the most part and the presence of horror cult favorite Moseley excepted, the biggest name actor (Howard) is essentially unrecognizable as a bearded monk who appears as an apparition in a couple of scenes and has no lines. That seems a bit of a waste to me.
This has been described as a faith-based horror film and in my notes I wrote down that it gets a little preachy at times but for the life of me I can’t remember any such occasions. I do remember the ending which is abrupt, unsatisfying and seems to exist to set up a sequel which the filmmaker has already stated is going to happen. All in all, Frank got the atmosphere right but needed to flesh out his script with a bit more information about the various characters and the history of the church – we see a brief headline from an old newspaper about a wicked family being punished by the church but it’s so quick we never get any details.
With so many new movies to choose from for your Halloween horror movie fix this year it’s hard to recommend this one but there are definitely some plusses to consider. The scares are a bit weak but given that Frank didn’t have a whole lot of cash to work with I think he did the best he could. Hopefully for the sequel he’ll give us a more fleshed out story and maybe a bit more of a budget to work with.
REASONS TO GO: The filming location is awesome.
REASONS TO STAY: The ending is a bit abrupt and disappointing.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some violence, profanity, spooky images and light sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The movie was filmed in downtown Philadelphia’s First Corinthian Baptist Church which Frank’s family has been attending for decades.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 10/13/18: Rotten Tomatoes: No score yet: Metacritic: 85/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Borderlands
FINAL RATING: 5/10
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Social Media Demographics in Kenya: Businesses and Influencers Still Get It Wrong
Having a business with no advertisement is like winking at a beautiful girl in total darkness.
Marketing is key for raising awareness about a new product or service, building brand loyalty, as well as trying to influence the purchasing behavior of existing and potential customers. This explains why both public and private sector organizations spend vast sums on marketing every year.
According to Noah Miller, a data analyst, and a social media expert, there are five stages along what he calls the “marketing funnel.” These must be satisfied for a marketing process to generate a return on investment. The stages are awareness, engagement, preference, impact, and advocacy. To help in the marketing of their services and products, many Kenyan businesses are increasingly adopting social media marketing.
However, “Many Kenyan companies do not fully grasp the power of social media, how it works, how it fits into their business and the impact it can make,” said Mr. Miller who is the Managing Director of Sochin Limited, a communications and data analytics consultancy in Kenya.
Based on the marketing funnel, most Kenyan businesses have stagnated in the first stage, awareness, and they have mistaken this to be the end goal. Most businesses are entrenched in social media hyping and online noise (using trending hashtags in the case of Twitter) without thinking whether or not any impact comes out of it. To most, the social media buzz is a ‘complete marketing process’ that reaches people across Kenya. But, is it true that the hyping of products and services on social media reaches Kenyans nationally?
According to a piece done by Mr. Miller, The Tyranny of Numbers on Social Media during Kenya’s 2017 Elections, Kenyan politicians and businesses are getting it all wrong in marketing their services on social media. Despite the fact that the Communication Authorities of Kenya estimates the Internet penetration in Kenya to be at 90 percent, this seems to not have translated into the usage and distribution of social media across the country. The smartphone adoption rate in Kenya was 44 percent according to statistics by Google Consumer Barometer, but when it comes to social media demographics, the results are completely opposite.
“Facebook Audience insights estimate that 4.3 to 5.1 million users visit the platform monthly and 85 percent are located in Nairobi. Mombasa accounts for 3 percent of users, Eldoret and Nakuru account for 0.9 percent each, and Kisumu occupies the 5th position with the user base of 0.6 percent,” writes Mr. Miller in his piece.
With 85 percent of Facebook users being in Nairobi and with a city as large as Kisumu only accounting for 0.6 percent, does this mean that businesses are getting it all wrong? Does this also mean that some areas in Kenya are in a total blackout when it comes to Facebook? This certainly means that businesses must do something different to maximize their experience with Facebook users if they want to truly reach a national audience.
The disparities in terms of demographics are not limited to Facebook. A similar analysis was done by Sochin Limited, which looked at the geo-tagging of 728,074 Twitter posts: 85 percent referenced Nairobi, 6.1 percent Mombasa, 3.8 percent Nakuru, 2.5 percent Kisumu and Uasin Gishu.
Both studies indicate that Facebook and Twitter users are mostly concentrated in Nairobi. If this is true, then what is the impact of the social media hyping of products and services? Nairobi still accounts for a large number of potential customers though it’s possible that trending conversations are really among a few influencers. Such limited conversations bypass customers who want engaging and informative content, preferably in a quickly accessible format such as video. | <urn:uuid:c278ac21-3556-46c7-941c-a82ffc9c0022> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,850 |
Varsity 18, El Dorado 17
Trabuco Hills Girls Lacrosse Varsity survived at El Dorado, taking an 18-17 non-league thriller.
The Mustangs started out like it would be an easy late afternoon. Within 16 minutes, Trabuco had a 7-3 lead in three goals from Hannah Redwine, two from Jessie Papageorge’s and one each from Megan McIntyre and Alyssa Ransom. By halftime, the Mustangs had stretched it to 11-5 with Redwine adding two more, Papageorge’s another and Melanie Leong scoring as well.
Then things got interesting. El Dorado scored 5 of the next 6 goals (Justine Tobias for Trabuco) — and it was only a 12-10 Trabuco advantage. Redwine scored again — but El Dorado scored three straight — and it was tied at 13 with 8 minutes left.
Tobias scored two straight to give the Mustangs a 2-goal lead, but El Dorado countered with three of their own. It was 16-15, El Dorado, with just 4 minutes left. Melanie Leong scored; then Tobias again to get Trabuco a lead once more. Papageorge’s iced it with a free position shot. El Dorado could only score one more before the final horn.
Notes: With 35 goals, this was the highest-scoring game Trabuco has ever played. Previous high was 30 goals (21-9 defeat of San Juan Hills, 2011) … Papageorge’s had five assists; Rachel Lansner had two. … Tobias had four ground ball pickups; Papgeorge’s and Loeng, three … Redwine had seven draw controls. … Niki Neeley and Jackie Huse had three takeaways; Cyrena Malkowski had eight saves.
Record: 10-6, 3-3 Sea View.
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In Asia, the prevalence of liver diseases is high. Conditions like jaundice, fatty liver associated with obesity, high alcohol consumption and metabolic conditions like high cholesterol and diabetes, to liver cirrhosis and cancer can all cause damage to the body’s Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) system – yet few understand it importance. Made up of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts and gallbladder, each organ is intrinsically related, and they are all essential to the body’s digestive system. Taking care of your HPB system through early detection is vital to empower patients to seek the right care.
Tasked with necessary bodily functions that include processing digested food from the intestine to controlling levels of fats, amino acids and glucose in the blood, combating infections in the body clearing the blood of particles and infections, neutralising and destroying drugs and toxins, strong iron, vitamins and other essential chemicals, breaking down food to turn it into energy and manufacturing bile which aids in fat digestion to breaking down food to turn it into energy, the HPB system is indeed complex but very important. Like all other bodily functions, the HPB system is also susceptible to disorders and diseases.
Related diseases triggered by viral, bacterial or parasitic infections, neoplasia, toxic chemicals, alcohol consumption, poor nutrition, metabolic disorders and even cardiac failure can lead to severe conditions. Diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and biliary system are relatively common and frequently require surgical treatment for recovery and good long-term outcome.
It is also the only organ in the body that has an incredible capacity for regeneration of dead or damaged tissues and it is capable of growing quickly to restore its normal size and function.
Fatty liver and hepatitis B are the two most common liver diseases in Singapore. A lifestyle-related liver condition, fatty liver, which affects approximately 15% of the population, could be the result of a sedentary lifestyle, inadequate activities and eating too much leading to an increase in body mass index (BMI). The risk factor of diabetes also negatively impacts the condition.
Hepatitis B, which is a disease characterised by the inflammation of the liver. The disease can progress to fibrosis (scarring) and cirrhosis or liver cancer. Since the prescription of a universal vaccination against hepatitis B, there has been a significant drop in incidences. To determine the health of the liver, by running a liver function test or a group of blood tests to detect inflammation and damage to the liver, even if there is no significant sign of liver discomfort, in particular for individuals who belong to the high-risk group – those with bad food habits, who lead sedentary lifestyles, with high BMI, diabetic patients, as well as individuals with family members who have liver conditions or are carriers of hepatitis B.
Once any liver disorder is detected from the blood tests, an ultrasound and further blood test will be prescribed to determine how advanced the condition is. Occasionally, there any be no answer from the blood tests by which time, the doctor may opt for minimally-invasive biopsy to draw samples from the liver cells.
After the liver condition has been determined, the next step is to prescribe treatment to prevent further injury to the liver, as well as to reduce the risk of downstream conditions. Fatty liver can be prevented from escalation with oral medication and lifestyle modification. Patients who are motivated to reduce calorie intake and exercise can reverse the liver condition. In fact, lifestyle changes are often more effective than medication. In the case of hepatitis B, if the virus is active and there is ongoing injury to the liver, treatment is necessary and this comes in the form of antiviral oral medication. Thereafter, regular blood tests will be done to determine if the condition is under control.
Surgery becomes necessary in two situations, when liver disease leads to liver failure, usually at end stage liver cirrhosis in which case a transplant is needed and if liver cirrhosis leads to liver cancer, the operation only removes cancer and leaves the remaining functioning liver. A liver transplantation is necessary for any individual with liver failure. In Asia, the prevalence of liver diseases like liver cancer is high, and there is an increasing demand for liver transplantation for patient with end-stage liver disease, not to mention a worldwide shortage of cadaveric (non-living) livers with a long waiting list in every country. Hence, Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) has become an effective option, particularly for those with acute liver failure and liver cancers like hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer.
LDLT is a procedure that involves a living donor who is willing to give a portion of his or her liver to a family member or close friend in need of a liver transplant. For patients suffering with rapidly progressive liver disease, waiting for a deceased donor liver is often not ideal as that can take a long time. Without LDLT, such patients can develop fatal complications.
One of the biggest advantages of LDLT over deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) is that the doctors can schedule the patient’s procedure. Thus, patients in a compromised medical condition can be optimized prior to transplant surgery in order to achieve better outcomes.
Read more about LDLT
The Parkway Asian Transplant Unit
A dedicated inpatient ward & ICU for liver patients.
Established in 1994, we are a leading center that treats liver, pancreas and bile duct diseases in both adult and paediatric patients. Based at the Gleneagles Hospital where it provides the outpatient services, we also co-manages the dedicated in-patient liver ward and ICU, known as Parkway Asian Transplant Unit (PATU).
The center is designed to provide patients with comprehensive and seamless liver care including liver cirrhosis treatment, liver dialysis, Hepatitis C treatment and Hepatitis A and B vaccines. PATU’s excellent clinical outcomes have been internationally recognized, making the unit one of Singapore’s leading medical assets.
Led by Dr. Tan Kai Chah, a renowned liver surgeon specializing in liver transplantation, the team comprises of Dr. Lee Kang Hoe, senior consultant and multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals.
Having performed the first living donor liver transplantation in 2002, we have gone on to successfully conduct more than 240 LDLTs – a milestone for Asia’s first private transplant centre. It is now one of the largest and most experienced centres performing such a procedure. The key to success has been a well-trained and experienced team in both ICU and general ward settings. The liver unit has also become one of the top centres in the world for managing liver failure patients before liver transplant. We have been successful in bridging these patients to their surgery by utilizing state of the art liver dialysis support for such critically ill patients. Our experience to date has been one of the largest in the world in managing such complex cases successfully.
We uses advanced German technology from MeVis Distant Services (MDS). It is a precise tool enabling the surgeon to perform the operation on the liver donor with utmost safety and confidence, this technology allows the doctors to reconstruct the liver anatomy of the donor accurately from CT scans. The data from the CT scan of the donor is uploaded to MDS, where a team of technicians and radiologist will translate the data to depict the vascular anatomy and parenchymal volume to determine the suitability of the proposed liver graft for the recipient. We were one of the first medical centres in Southeast Asia to use such technology regularly and also a regional leader in the usage of various liver dialysis machines, which help treat patients with liver failure and act as a “bridge” to transplantation surgery. One of the main drawbacks of LDLT is the potential for complications or even death of the donor. There is also the difficulty of finding a donor whose blood group is compatible with the recipient and is fit (physically and mentally) to undergo surgery. In Singapore, donors tend to be next of kin of the recipient or close associates. Potential donors are required to consult with our specialist to be made fully aware of the risks of the surgery.
While the causes for pancreatic cysts, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, and autoimmune pancreatitis are not entirely clear, it is commonly believed that acute pancreatitis is usually caused by gallstones or alcohol abuse/ingestion. Pancreatitis caused by gallstones will require gallbladder surgery to prevent subsequent abuse and may require surgery to relieve abdominal pain in severe cases. Autoimmune pancreatitis, which can sometimes mimic pancreatic cancer, is thought to be caused by chronic alcohol abuse and may require surgery to relieve abdominal pain in severe cases. Autoimmune pancreatitis, which can sometimes mimic pancreatic cancer, is thought to be caused by the body’s immune system attacking the pancreas and can be treated with medication.
With more people turning to regular health screening, coupled with the prevalent use of medical imaging such as ultrasound and CT, there is an increased incidence of early detection of pancreatic cysts.
Pancreatic cysts can be detected early, but this will require an ultrasound or CT scan. Blood tests are not reliable markers for most pancreatic tumours or cysts. To determine the nature of pancreatic cysts, patients may undergo endoscopic ultrasound. This will have the advantage of sampling the cyst fluid for analysis (with fine-needle aspiration), helping us determine the cancer frisk and diagnosing the various types of pancreatic cysts.
Once the nature of the cyst and its risk for malignancy (or cancer) have been determined, the doctor will then advise how best to manage the cyst. Typically, for low-risk cyssts, surveillance by a pancreatic doctor will suffice. However, in the case of high risk cysts, surgery is the treatment of choice to eradicate the problem, as well as, to avoid the possibility of the cyst becoming malignant in the future.
Pancreatic cancers are malignant, and they can arise in the head of the pancreas or the body/tail of the pancreas. To date, there is no reliable marker for early detection of pancreatic cancer, however, we are aware that some pancreatic cysts are at risk of becoming pancreatic cancer. Hence, the formal evaluation of pancreatic cysts to determine if these cysts are at high risk for pancreatic cancer will be important.
Surgery is the treatment of choice once pancreatic cancer is diagnosed. Whipple surgery or the removal of the pancreatic head is recommended if cancer occurs in the head of the pancreas. Complications occur in about 30% of Whipple surgery, with most being minor ones such as infection, wound problems, or delayed bowel recovery. Major complications would include bleeding or pancreatic leak. If a tumour is located in the body or tail of the pancreas, distal pancreatectomy or surgical resection of the body and tail of the pancreas will be performed. And if the cancer is detected early, this surgery can be performed laparoscopically otherwise known as a minimally-invasive surgery performed without long incisions.
With a 10% to 15% rate of complication, of which most are minor complications recovery is expected to be relatively quick and with a significantly smaller scar. Adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery helps in lowering relapse rate for pancreatic cancer. The majority of patients recover well from surgery and will maintain normal digestive function after pancreatic surgery. Post-surgery downtime is approximately three to six weeks, depending on the type of surgery performed. Some patients can experience mild abdominal discomfort after surgery but assure that the condition it will improve with time. A small minority of about 10% to 20% can develop diabetes after pancreatic surgery, depending on the complexity and type of surgery performed.
The Two Common Conditions Affecting The Bile Duct are Bile Duct Stones and Bile Duct Cancer
Bile duct stones are caused by gallstones that may have fallen out into the main bile duct. And in rare instances, stones may form in the bile duct instead of the gallbladder. The risk factors for gallstone formation include obesity, female gender, pregnancy, high-fat diet and family history. Patients with this condition may experience symptoms of infection (fever, right upper abdominal pain, sweats and chills) as most stones contain bacteria that may lead to infection of the blocked bile flow. Gallstones in the gallbladder may be detected by an ultrasound scan of the abdomen. Gallstones are very common in the general populations and the presence of the gallstones without symptoms usually does not require treatment. Stones in the bile duct, however, require medical attention.
Stones in the bile duct may be removed using a special endoscope called endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Introduced through the mouth, a flexible tube with a light and camera goes into the duodenum where the bile duct is to remove the stones. If the ERCP is unsuccessful in removing the stones, a radiological procedure is suggested for percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram to be performed where a catheter is inserted through the liver into the bile ducts for the visualization of the biliary tract.
Another option is to perform a surgical removal of the bile duct stones. In order for bile duct stones to be removed from the gallbladder, the gallbladder will be surgically removed, often via key-hole or laparoscopic technique, to prevent recurrent problems.
Bile duct cancer, or cancer of the wall of the bile duct, may occur along the course of the ducts. Its risk factors include parasitic infection, primary sclerosing cholangitis (autoimmune bile duct inflammation), bile duct cysts and chronic bile duct stones. Patients with this condition may complain of poor appetite, weight loss and fatigue.
Such cancer is difficult to detect at its infancy and usually has no symptoms. It may cause an elevation of tumour markers but because tumour markers are also commonly raised in noncancerous conditions, it is often difficult to identify such cancer.
Surgical removal is the only chance for cure in bile duct cancer. Surgery is only possible if the patient is diagnosed at an early stage before the cancer has spread. The type of surgery is dependent on the location of the bile duct cancer and it usually involves the removal of the bile ducts with part of the liver or pancreas.
After recovery from surgery, it is often recommended that patients undergo chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. If surgery is not possible, chemotherapy may prolong the patient’s survival.
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You’re invited to celebrate the pride, history and knowledge of our First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures at Lethbridge College’s 2018 Indigenous Celebration Day. Join us for both traditional and contemporary entertainment, including powwow drumming and dancing performances, Métis jigging, a hand drum contest as well as arts, crafts and community exhibits.
Special this year: the unveiling of Lethbridge College’s Ohkotoki’aahkkoiyiiniimaan Showcase
Lethbridge College is located on the traditional land of the Blackfoot people. Guided by our Blackfoot Kaahsinnooniiks (Grandparents) and community members, we are moving together respectfully to a greater knowledge and understanding of Blackfoot ways of knowing.
In October 2017, Lethbridge College was given the Blackfoot name Ohkotoki’aahkoiyiiniimaan (Stone Pipe). In the spirit of continued knowledge, the college has created a dedicated showcase that will highlight the story, from past to present, of the Blackfoot people. The unveiling ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the campus’ Centre Core, then the festivities will follow in the Val Matteoti Gymnasium.
Schedule of Events
All events, with the exception of the Stone Pipe unveiling, will take place in the Val Matteoti Gymnasium.
|9:30 a.m.||Ohkotoki’aahkoiyiiniimaan (Stone Pipe) Centre Core showcase unveiling|
|10 a.m.||Grand entry and opening ceremonies|
|10:30 a.m.||Special presentation|
|11 a.m.||Entertainment - Roy Pogorzelski, Métis Jigginng|
|11:30 a.m.||Powwow drumming and dance show|
|12:30 p.m.||Entertainment: Armond Duck Chief|
|1 p.m.||Hand drum contest|
|Arts, crafts and community displays|
|10 a.m. – 2 p.m||Come and visit the many displays. Booths showcase Indigenous organizations, jewelry and traditional arts and crafts.| | <urn:uuid:246fa4b1-cdb0-4f50-a414-7c437021c846> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,765 |
Collective WIESE (Literature and Theater)
WIESE is about literature, poetology, and the autonomy of linguistic beauty—but also about claims to social space and politics.
WIESE meets Wednesdays, reads, discusses, and translates texts together, mainly in Arabic and German.
WIESE collaborates with the MMC-based theatre and performance group INVISIBLE CITY (Uunsichtbare Stadt) and the DRUSIAN NATIONAL THEATRE AS-SUWAIDA.
Participants in the WIESE currently include Rahaf Gharzaddien, Nauras Ali, Kenan Khadaj, Marwa Younes Almokbel, Christian Filips, Miriam Rainer and other.
Initiated by Christian Filips.
Collective Basis and Future (Visual Art)
The “Basis and Future” class takes its starting point the work of Studio 26 as a platform for art as a means of political and social engagement. For people of all ages. The workshops are open to all age groups and to people with or without prior artistic experience. Workshops and meetings take place every week.
We work with various media: printmaking (linocut and silkscreen), painting, drawing, photography, and animation.
Deborah Anne Bowen, Nadira Hausain, Greta Cazzola, Laura Meyer, Alice Cazzola, Marina Naprushkina, Christian Wollgast, Vera Varlamova, Abbas Al-Shafeay, Uma Gadzieva, Nicola Schüschke, Alan Khaled, Eleonore de Montesquiou and other.
Image and Propaganda (Design)
IP is responsible for creating visuals for all the events held by the MMC and translating messages into graphic and text form as books, posters, flyers, and publications. IP produces the MMC-Magazine.
Language and Friendship (Linguistics)
The Language and Friendship Class will build on five years of experience with the German Stammtisch at Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit. The Stammtisch format of regular get-togethers was founded in 2013. At these events, old and new neighbors meet at Neue Nachbarschaft three times per week to converse in German and get to know one another. The Stammtisch is not a language class in the traditional sense, but a language laboratory and social interaction.
The class will support and further develop the Stammtisch format by exploring issues around language learning and friendship, by writing essays, holding short presentations for further discussion, reinforcing connections between and among participants, and by emphasizing participation and empathy. The class investigates friendship as a social relationship that is of extraordinary importance for both individuals and society. In modern societies, natural “friendships” based on personal connections, trust, and long-term relationships have become increasingly rare. This leads to growing social isolation and depression at the individual level, which has long-term impacts on society as a whole.
The class will develop theoretical and practical methods.
Sheroes of Jabalmoa
International women’s group that meets once a week for exchange about language, the body, and everyday life.
We are women, just women or sheroes, sheroes of the mountains of Moa. We come from all over the world, Sudan, Syria, Gambia, India, Russia, France, Germany and so on and so forth and each of us brings something from her own world every week.
Movement and Voice (Politics and Music)
The Movement and Voice Class will build on the activities of the Political Working Group founded at Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit in summer 2017. The group organized the campaign "HIER WÄHLEN ALLE" (everyone votes here) during the German parliamentary election of fall 2017. Numerous events, actions, lectures, and meetings with politicians were held as part of the campaign.
The class will continue developing new political formats for political education, debate, and participation. It will incorporate the experiences of the other classes into its work, and have the resources of the MMC at its disposal.
The class will found a choir for new songs that move and inspire people.
“إنسِجام” Insi’Jam (Musical Collective)
Open group of musicians and music-lovers of different musical, ethnical and social backgrounds.
In our weekly Jamsession we provide a space with a complete setup of instruments from electric guitar to darbuka - open for everyone to play and listen to no matter how different the individual interests, emotions, styles and skills shared may be. While Jammin’, organizing external concerts and exercising in a recently founded band-project, we learn from each other and share our knowledge.
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Cooking for 100 people every Wednesday. International traditional dishes: economical, simple and tasty: best cooking school.
Every Tuesday from 19:45
Every Monday from 19:45
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Julie Bruce, left, and Diane Crist, both of Shakopee, sparred during a recent “Fight Shape” mixed martial arts class at Life Time Fitness in Chanhassen. Bruce, 49, gave the class a try when her workout regime had hit a plateau. She was hesitant at first but has grown to like the class and the confidence it’s given her.
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MMA fitness challenges everyday people to get into fighting shape
- Article by: ALLIE SHAH
- Star Tribune
- November 18, 2013 - 6:51 PM
Julie Bruce was looking for something to punch up her workout when she stepped barefoot onto the mat at Life Time Fitness.
“I had been doing a lot of running and high-intensity spin classes and had hit a plateau,” said Bruce, 49, a financial consultant from Shakopee.
That’s when she discovered Life Time’s “Fight Shape” class, which put her body to the test as she learned to grapple, strike and execute takedowns. “I was thinking, ‘I really don’t want to hit anybody or anything,’ ” she said, “but I went to the class and I was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t so bad.’ ”
Bruce is learning mixed martial arts, the fast-growing combat sport popularized by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In the UFC, two fighters square off inside a cage, attempting to harm each other with a mix of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, wrestling, boxing and other fighting styles. Victory is often decided by a brutal knockout or a suffocating chokehold.
But Bruce doesn’t want to fight. She just wants to get fit.
Unlike the hulking stars of the UFC, Bruce is among a growing number of MMA enthusiasts who come in all ages and physiques. Increasingly, the classes at local gyms are populated by women — and even children.
“There’s still a stigma around the sport that there’s going to be blood everywhere, that it’s going to smell,” said Merrick Morland, MMA coordinator for all Life Time Fitness locations. “The majority of people joining [the classes] have no intention of getting into a fight. They want to cut weight like a fighter.”
Full body workout
Fitness lovers have always looked to combat sports such as boxing and kickboxing for a fast-paced cardio workout. But as MMA’s fanbase grows, some boxing gyms are ceding time and space to the sport. These workouts are the latest example of the extreme fitness trend that has made Tabata, P90X and Insanity so popular.
“It’s huge right now,” said Dalton Outlaw, co-owner of Elements Boxing & Fitness in St. Paul, which recently expanded its offerings to include MMA training. So huge, in fact, that the UFC — the sport’s premier fighting league — has branded its own line of gyms specializing in MMA fitness. It has 96 locations nationwide and 85,000 members.
“They want to be able to train without getting a broken nose or getting hit in the eye,” said Adam Sedlack, the chain’s senior VP.
While the UFC has no immediate plans to open a gym in the Twin Cities, the area is flush with MMA-focused fitness programs. About a dozen gyms offer MMA training for the warrior and non-warrior alike.
The Academy in Brooklyn Center is a sprawling, fluorescent-lit warehouse space that has long catered to young men pursuing a career in fighting, including former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar. But that’s changed in recent years. “A lot of [students] coming in are just everyday people,” said Academy head coach Greg Nelson.
Life Time Fitness is fairly new to the game, having launched its mixed combat arts program one year ago. The 12-week classes are offered at two Minnesota locations — Chanhassen and Lakeville. In contrast to larger, grittier combat centers like the Academy, Life Time’s MMA studio in Chanhassen has a polished design. It converted racquetball courts into an MMA training space outfitted with thick floor mats, padded walls, speed bags and a cage-like fence. The setting helps newbies feel less intimidated about trying the sport, Morlan said.
Eric Hallman, a Chaska salesman and father of two, says he’s lost 50 pounds since he started training last fall at Life Time. A former college hockey player, Hallman became a convert after seeing what MMA could do as a comprehensive workout — challenging his core, upper body and legs.
“If you look at any UFC professional fighter, they’re in amazing shape,” Hallman said. “That’s the whole thing behind this — you’re training several parts of your body at once without realizing you’re doing it. And it’s fun.”
In a typical class, beginners learn the basic moves they might see in a professional bout on TV. Students might learn how to escape a “rear naked choke” (a chokehold applied from behind by an opponent) or the proper way to deliver a leg-sweep takedown. They’ll also throw stiff jabs and kicks at pads and punching bags.
As with any extreme exercise, injuries can happen. At the beginner level, there’s the possibility of twisted knees, muscle sprains or bruises. In the advanced classes, which might include sparring, blows to the head could result in concussions.
Though he likes sparring with his personal trainer, Hallman has no plans to fight competitively.
“I’m 40 with a family. I have no inclinations to do any of that,” he said.
Gaining new followers
Boxing and kickboxing training aren’t the only combat sports feeling competition from MMA. When it comes to kids’ classes, move over karate andtaekwondo.
May See Xiong of Burnsville said her son Lucas, 10, used to take taekwondo lessons but switched to MMA and hasn’t looked back. Her other son, Lex, 7, has joined him in classes at two local gyms. Xiong and her husband enjoy watching UFC fights at home on TV. The action piqued the interest of her boys: “My son said, ‘Well, I want to learn how to do that, too,’ ” she said.
Xiong said she likes seeing her sons learn the diversity of fighting styles.
“They actually get to do kickboxing, boxing, using their hands and feet. They’re on the ground. They’re grappling. They’re learning to use techniques like the head choke, the cobra, the arm bar and all that stuff,” she said proudly.
Xiong said she doesn’t worry about her boys getting hurt because the lessons are controlled and focus heavily on self-defense and technique.
As MMA classes open their doors to a wider range of students, many of the new faces in these gyms are women. Their inclusion is a reflection of a larger trend in the professional ranks, where the number of female fighters has increased dramatically since the UFC introduced a women’s division in 2012. At the UFC’s fitness gyms, 44 percent of all members are women, Sedlack said.
When Bruce started at Life Time Fitness she said she was pretty sure MMA was “not my cup of tea.” A few months later, Bruce is bobbing and weaving, grappling with fellow students and learning how to fall (correctly). While training, she said she’s boosted her heart rate, strengthened her core and increased her flexibility.
But the biggest change has come from within.
“For me,” she said, “it makes me do things I thought I would never do.”
Allie Shah • 612-673-4488
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I love adventure and exploring new things that do not always belong to the ordinary, as you may have noticed with salt stones that I have to cook the food on. I really hope you buy them home because they are absolutely fabulous!
Have got hold of Demeyeres smoke boiler from Kockbutiken. Sooo excited to try it out. It hot smoke meat, fish, chicken, vegetables, etc. Yes all that you want to hot smoke. And you will not get a totally smoked home eather as the smoke stays inside the pan.
Love the things that have multiple uses. This boiler can also steam vegetables. Awesome right?
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You can't always figure the people who collect figurals. They'll scorn the Booz cabin bottle that used to be your grandfather's -- and offer you an irrational sum for the clumsy likeness of the Washington Monument on your kitchen windowsill, the bottle that doesn't even have George on top of it.
Figurals, indeed. "Some collectors call them character bottles," says Jim Phillips, "others, figure bottles. The specialists argue over boundaries and classifications. But most of us just go for the object."
After 20 years of going -- to shows, antique stores, museums -- Mr. Phillips, the retired head of a landscaping firm, is accepted as having this area's choicest accumulation. The new house he moved into last year features a wall of glass-door-protected figurals in the living room, a similar, ceiling-to-floor wall in the foyer, and wait'll you see the cobalt blues in his basement.
When a connoisseur of figurals has arranged many of the standard rarities on his shelves (they're glass too) -- such as an Indian Queen bitters, a grandfather clock, a man in the moon, an early Napoleon, not to mention a Washington Monument in amber -- does that person just sit there, fondly admiring?
Not when there's a chance of more, or better. Next Sunday, in the 4-H Building at Timonium State Fairgrounds, the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club holds its 11th annual show and sale, with 250 tables of dealer wares plus specialty exhibits. Mr. Phillips will be there early, roaming the aisles and eyeing sale objects the instant they emerge from their wrappings. "I've never been able to find a milk glass alligator, or Daws dog," he remarks.
Among old bottles -- milks, inks, bitters, perfumes, poisons, medicines, nursers, sodas, whiskeys, beers, fruit jars, historical flasks, whimsies -- figurals are cross-categorical. Sometimes dispute still rages as to what (if anything) were the contents. Some figurals aren't glass but earthenware or china; some aren't old. Some are old but the painted colors on them aren't; some have been skillfully repaired. Mr. Phillips cites the book, "Statues That Pour," by Otha D. Wearin: "You always have a few people in every group who, if a cat were to have kittens in an oven, would call them biscuits."
Bottles in the shape of human beings, animals, buildings and other familiar objects go back before 1800. A sitting cat, standing bear, violin, Bunker Hill Monument, owl, hand, Grant's Tomb, clamshell, Santa Claus, foot, Napoleon -- the 19th century manufacturer had them made to coax a customer into buying his candy, or cologne, or wine, or syrup, or patent medicine. Later, somebody in the household, thinking "Oh, how dear!" couldn't bear to throw out the emptied container.
"By now, figurals have been laboriously cataloged -- by collectors. The manufacturers, in many countries, left no tabulations; therefore the possibility of finding something not listed, and confounding the cataloger, is ever-present," points out Drew Andersen, bottle club president. Baker Bros. & Co. (Charles J. William Jr., Charles E. and George B.), the city's most prominent 19th century glassmaker, put out Washington Monuments in several colors; didn't Baker, or anyone else, ever do a Battle Monument?
E. C. Booz was a mid-century Philadelphia merchant who perceived that a chimney could also serve as a spout. His rectangular, amber Old Cabin Whiskey bottle was not only bought but imitated. "Don't let anyone today sell you a Booz bottle as the original article," cautions Mr. Phillips; "they're very hard to authenticate." Some collectors have fun lining up a row of the reproductions.
"If you have a bottle of unusual shape, bring it over to our free appraisal table during the show," says Ferd Meyer, co-chairman with Nick Benedict; "we'll estimate its age and value."
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How To Train A Dog To Be Ashamed
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
This trick teaches your dog to lie on the ground and put his paw over his muzzle as if ashamed or in trouble.
- This trick should be easy to teach if your dog knows how to touch his nose.
- Ask your dog to lie down and give him the command for touching his nose.
- When he attempts this use reinforcement and reward to encourage him to repeat the position.
- Add the new command word and practice by shaping with pointed reinforcement until your dog can get into and stay in the position.
Top tip; by withholding the reinforcement and reward you will be gently guiding your dog to adopt and hold the position of this trick.
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